“Foreshore, Law and Politics” – AIMS at the New Zealand Parliament
October 4th, 2003 at an International Coference in New Zealand, Brian Lee Crowley gave a talk entitled “Who should own the sea and why it matters” outlining how the benefits of individual quotas or property rights will result in sustainable fisheries. In conjunction with this speech. Dr. Crowley took the opportunity to release AIMS major paper on aquaculture completed in cooperation with the Canadian Aquaculture Institute.
Much of Ottawa idle on EI file
The debate over Employment Insurance has re-emerged after Human Resources Development Canada launched its largest fraud investigation in New Brunswick history into the EI claims of some 2,000 fishplant workers in Southeast New Brunswick. In this editorial published in the Moncton Times and Transcript, Ottawa Bureau Chief Campbell Morrison argues HRDC should not be shouldering the responsibility of 'fixing' the EI system and questions the absence of other departments in finding solutions to the EI problem. Local MP Dominic LeBlanc and AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley are quoted as two supporters for a solution involving more than one agency. ACOA Minister Gerry Byrne, however, disagrees and sees no role for his agency until the investigations are complete. Morrison and LeBlanc are disappointed by this lack of initiative on all fronts, but as Crowley points out "EI has become so politicized that everybody is scared to death to open their mouth" and that, says Morrison, is too bad.
AIMS On-Line for October 7, 2003
Angus McBeath: Choice, Accountability and Performance in Public Schools, You Can’t Build A City on Pity: Urban Visionary John Norquist speaks to AIMS Luncheon and Brian Lee Crowley on gay marriage and how judicial activism threatens social consensus and devalues rights.
Fencing the Last Frontier
UPEI economist, Robin Neill argues that because there is no comprehensive body of law dealing with the industry, producers are forced to navigate a maze of sluggish and inept bureaucracy with no restraint on government and administrative discretion.
AIMS President Releases Major Paper on Aquaculture at New Zealand Conference
AIMS paper argues industry lorded over by “feudal bureaucracy”
Short Sea up close – the wave of the future?
Container traffic at ports around North America is on the increase. Container ships are getting larger and larger to handle the increase in traffic. But what happens after these megaships land in port, where do all those containers go. It's called Short Sea Shipping and some say it's the new wave.
You Can’t Build a City on Pity
Urban visionary and Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist on making city government more efficient and less costly for taxpayers
When courts make law, art of compromise lost
The public debate over gay marriage has converged largely on the interests of those who agree or disagree of the traditional definition of marriage. But are we losing sight of an even larger issue in the emotional rhetoric? Society has a clear interest in supporting loving relationships whether they are homosexual or heterosexual, but in the age of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are Canadians losing the power to determine how their society is to evolve? Is the important process of political compromise and consensus being short-circuited in this debate by judges inventing rights to suit their personal political prejudices? And are we devaluing the whole concept of “rights” in the process? In this commentary AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley examines the same sex marriage issue and the unchecked power of the judiciary.
State Run Auto Insurance: How to make a bad situation… worse
Insurance, particularly auto insurance, has been a “hot” issue over the past year. Emotions have been running high and that leaves people vulnerable to the latest scheme that sounds like it will solve the problem with the wave of a magic wand.
AIMS On-Line for mid September, 2003
An invitation to lunch with urban visionary Mayor John Norquist of Milwaukee, lessons from the west coast's experience with property rights in the fishery and Brian Lee Crowley on how Employment Insurance causes unemployment.