Top Ten Things People Believe About Canadian Health Care But Shouldn’t
It is a good thing Canadian health care is not a patient in the health care system. Thirty years of poor policy decisions have caused it irreparable harm and the wait time for the appropriate corrective procedure seems to boarder on infinite. This Commentary by AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley exposes the most commonly held misconceptions about health care in Canada.
Power Trip
In his second paper on NB Power Dr. Tom Tucker says the proposed restructuring of NB Power will do nothing to address the problems of high operating costs and high debts. He says shifting the debt from the corporation to the government does nothing to address the fundamental problems which prevent the corporation from generating sufficient cash to retire debt. Turning the business units of NB Power into separate Crowns is nothing more than symbolism over substance.
Proposed Restructuring of New Brunswick Power Leaves its Huge Problems Unresolved
Province simply shifting debt from one pocket to another, does nothing to improve grim financial outlook.
Is the Drive for Cheaper Drugs Costing Lives?
In these remarks to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health Don McIver, AIMS’ Director of Research, argues that Canadians must be careful the drive to supply today’s patients with low cost medicines doesn’t deprive tomorrow’s sick of the new medicines they need.
Atlantica – One Region, Two Futures
Momentum builds in the Atlantica project as a variety of initiatives bring people together from both sides of the Canada - US border
Unleashing Canada: AIMS hosts former Ontario Premier Mike Harris
Mike Harris spoke at the Fraser Institute's eighteenth annual Dr. Harold Walter Siebens Lecture
Quotas key to profitable, sustainable fishery – Give fishermen control
New Zealand and in Iceland did it. Why can’t we? What these two fishing nations did was to revolutionise their fisheries by giving fishermen, not politicians, ownership and control over the fish through Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs). But while the experience from around the world is that ITQs improve conservation, economic returns from fishing, safety, and standards of living for fishermen while improving relationships with the government regulators. Yet progress in implementing ITQs in Canada, while important, has been slow and halting. In this article published in the Halifax Chronicle Herald and the Moncton Times & Transcript, October 22, 2003, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley says that if the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is serious about creating a sustainable fishery that creates wealth for coastal communities and isn’t merely a way to get stamped up for EI, he needs to champion this change.
Newfoundland needs more than a switch
Polls are indicating the Progressive Conservative Party will come to Power in today's Newfoundland provincial election. Questions will now be asked about the policy direction of a government under PC Leader Danny Williams. AIMS Fellow Peter Fenwick, who writes for AIMS on Newfoundland policy issues, has turned his mind to what a Williams government's priorities will be, given the leader's policy positions and the evolution of the election campaign. In this item originally published in the October 21st National Post, Fenwick says beyond a modest commitment to eliminate civil servant positions and balance the budget, the PC agenda appears to be business as usual.
AIMS On-Line for October 16, 2003
What's New at Atlantic Canada’s Public Policy Think Tank.
Special AIMS On-Line for October 9, 2003
UNLEASHING CANADA: A Luncheon with Mike Harris