Property rights resolution vital to aquaculture
It sounds implausible but Canadian aquaculturists have actually been arrested by government officials for "illegal fishing" while harvesting fish that exist chiefly because of the culturing efforts of their owners. The police have refused to lay theft charges against people who rustle aquaculturists' fish stocks because their property rights are so muddy, it is not at all clear that they own what has been stolen.
ACOA Watch #2 – Locking Up The Pork Barrel
AIMS is releasing its second in a series of publications examining the role the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency plays in the economic development of the region. In this edition of ACOA Watch, Brian Lee Crowley and Bruce Winchester consider the recent work by Jack Mintz and Michael Smart of the C.D. Howe Institute "Brooking no Favorites"
The Challenge for Canadian Aquaculture
As a result of a combination of rising wealth, rising population and rising technological sophistication, the very relationship that mankind enjoys with the seas is being fundamentally altered. Nowhere is this transformation clearer than in aquaculture, which rose from nothing to a US$30-billion industry worldwide last year. The prestigious Economist magazine recently featured an aquaculture cover story called the Blue Revolution, intentionally suggesting a parallel with the Green Revolution, which hugely increased world agricultural production and efficiency at the end of the last century. Aquaculture is set to become a vigorous and lucrative industry for Canada’s coasts. Yet “fencing” this last frontier is hampered by a property rights regime intended for the wild fishery, rather than agriculture, which aquaculture more closely resembles.
Des défis pour l’aquaculture canadienne
Dans sa chronique régulière dans La Presse, le plus grand quotidien de langue française de l’Amérique du Nord, le président de AIMS, Brian Lee Crowley observe que, dans les faits, l'aquaculture canadienne est contrôlée par une bureaucratie inepte et lourde, ne voyant que le développement économique à court terme et disposant d'un pouvoir discrétionnaire qui plie volontiers devant la force politique d'intérêts établis. Si la discrétion administrative peut s'exercer de manière si ample en matière d'aquaculture, c'est en partie parce qu'il n'existe pas de statuts fédéraux ou provinciaux au Canada touchant cette pratique.
New Brunswick’s Plastics Industry
New Brunswick’s “Plastics Valley” is an "Extrusion Delusion". AIMS paper injects reason into misguided industrial development strategy adding that fundamental deficiencies seriously undermine the prospects that New Brunswick will ever achieve importance as a plastics products powerhouse, as the provincial government hopes.
New Brunswick’s “Plastics Valley” an Extrusion Delusion
AIMS paper injects reason into misguided industrial development strategy
AIMS On-Line November 25, 2003
AIMS ECANS Conference -"Plugging in the International Northeast, AIMS releases new Paper by Gordon Weil, “The Atlantica Power Market: A Plan for Joint Action”, Brian Lee Crowley on "One region, two futures”, AIMS delivers strong message to federal Finance Committee and more.
Newfoundland and Labrador AG’s “Fiscal Realism”
Newfoundland’s Auditor General John Noseworthy has been painting with numbers, and the resulting picture is very bleak indeed. “Fiscal Realism” has proved especially shocking as Newfoundlanders are made more aware of the distinctions between “cash” deficits and accrued deficits. Peter Fenwick comments from Newfoundland.
Bono Should Redirect Aid to Africa Campaign
Irish Rock star Bono used the Liberal leadership convention as a platform to convince Canadians of a need for higher levels of foreign aid for Africa. Bono’s desire to improve the lives of the desperately poor in Africa is well-meaning, but the open-handedness he advocates is perilous policy. Tripling Canada’s foreign aid budget will not solve Africa’s troubles, and in many cases, it will sabotage efforts to improve conditions.
Submission to the New Brunswick Government Select Committee on Public Automobile Insurance
In 2003, automobile insurance became a "hot button" topic, threatening to bring down provincial governments in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is an issue full of emotion, but in this submission to the New Brunswick Government Select Committee on Public Automobile Insurance, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley argues that the idea of putting car insurance into the public sector, is not be all its cracked up to be.