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Demographics point to looming labour shortage

By | October 10th, 2001|In the Media|

In 20 years there will be 32,000 fewer workers in Newfoundland, 11,000 fewer in Nova Scotia, 35,000 fewer in New Brunswick and virtually no change in Prince Edward Island. So, will this translate into a significant labour shortage in the coming decades? Not necessarily, says AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley. In his regular newspaper column, Crowley suggests that much of the potential shortage can be made up simply by increasing the percentage of people actually involved in the labour force. Higher wages, flexible working conditions, innovative technologies, and worker aids will all have their place in increasing productivity and drawing more people into the workforce. Equally crucial is social program redesign to eliminate current disincentives for people to get involved in the workforce. By encouraging self-sufficiency and rewarding a desire to work rather than penalizing it, welfare reform can meet the demographic changes head on and deliver benefits for the individual workers as we

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ACOA “ghetto-izes” Atlantic Canada

By | August 18th, 2001|In the Media|

In a review of ACOA spending in Newfoundland published by The Telegram in St. John's AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley, comments on the lack of a need for small specialized regional agencies to manage federal investment in needed infrastructure. Crowley believes, for example, that Atlantic Canada should receive support for its universities through Industry Canada and Human Resources Development Canada rather than through a special agency that "ghetto-izes" the region. Publication: ETSJ, August 18, 2001

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Harris aims at the wrong target

By | July 23rd, 2001|In the Media|

Ontario Premier Mike Harris is exercised about inequities in the way Ottawa treats his province, and rightly so. But he should reserve his fire for the federal government, and not shoot thoughtlessly at his potential allies in the battle for fairer federal-provincial arrangements. In this piece published in the National Post, AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley, argues that Premier Harris should support equalization reform that ends asset seizure and rewards provinces for sound development of their resources. And the Atlantic provinces need to come to the table, too, and support Ontario's demands for equitable treatment of all Canadians by federal programs such as employment insurance. Neither side should allow Ottawa to engage in its old divide and rule tactics. For both Ontario and the Atlantic provinces, the policy problem lies in Ottawa, and they should be making common cause in putting it right. Publication: NP, July 23, 2001

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AIMS Authors Buoyed by CTA Review Report Canada needs a for-profit model of port governance

By | July 20th, 2001|Media Releases|

CTA Review Report comes to same conclusion as AIMS study

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How to Save the Port of Halifax From a Slow Lingering Death

By | June 7th, 2001|Media Releases|

AIMS releases Port-Ability: A Private Sector Strategy for the Port of Halifax

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Port-Ability

By | June 1st, 2001|Policy Papers|

As a gateway to North America for world container traffic, the port of Halifax is dying a slow, lingering death. For the past ten years, its share of the North Atlantic market has stagnated. This stagnation has been caused by a failure to achieve real privatization in port governance. Despite supposed efforts at commercialization of ports in Canada, the federal government retains strict centralized control on ports and port policy. This is a drag on innovation, efficiency, and investment.

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Social Policy in the New Economy

By | May 23rd, 2001|Op-ed|

The annual retreat of senior managers of the federal Department of Finance took place in Cornwall, Ontario this year on the theme of Social Policy in the New Economy. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was a member of a panel of four policy thinkers from across the country who were asked to come and set the stage for the group's deliberations.

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AIMS publication recognised as one of the “best books on Canadian Public Policy” in 2000

By | April 3rd, 2001|Media Releases|

Retreat from Growth: Atlantic Canada and the Negative Sum Economy

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Atlantic business still depends on subsidies

By | March 15th, 2001|In the Media|

In an op-ed piece in the Financial Post section of the National Post, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley and UNB Economist David Murrell explain that, far from being undersubsidized relative to the national average as some had claimed, Atlantic business overall still is more dependent on subsidies than business in the country as a whole. Moreover, they argue that business subsidies are a rough measure of the lack of competitiveness of local business, and governments and businesses in the region should be working to bring them down in favour of more sensible policies like better infrastructure and education and lower taxes.

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Subsidies to business as much as 29% higher in Atlantic Canada than in the rest of the country

By | March 13th, 2001|Media Releases|

AIMS study contradicts claims region not getting its

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