Atlantic Canada Should Aim For Regional Pwr Mkt-Thinktank
Here is the Dow Jones News Service report on Tom Adams' keynote speech at Plugging in Atlantic Canada.
Maine, Canada ties urged
Former Maine International Trade Center Director Perry Newman and AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley have been discussing ways to improve trade and other links across the international border.
Canadian aquaculture caught in regulatory fog
The Canadian aquaculture industry is trapped in a fog of confusion and needs a true champion to pilot the farms of the future onto the world stage. The conference at Brudenell River Resort sponsored by The Canadian Aquaculture Institute and AIMS brought together producers, scientists and policy-makers who were told that while phenomenal growth exists in Canada, opportunities and investment are going elsewhere because of the impediments facing domestic expansion.
Federalism and the New Economy: Sovereignty as a moving target
The Summer University at Aix-en-Provence invited AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley to give a series of lectures at their 2000 session. In his second lecture he argues that federalism as traditionally practised is based on an outdated view of the economy. In the future, power will be less devolved to different levels of government and instead be far more widely dispersed within civil society. He also draws on Canadian examples to illustrate how federalism can be a rent-seeker's paradise.
Vision of a two-tier Canada mean-spirited
Nationally syndicated columnist Richard Gwyn attacks the central Canadian thinking behind "lazy" Maritimers" comments. In doing so he quotes from Fred McMahon's latest analysis of Atlantic Canada "Retreat From Growth ." Calling it an excellent analysis of the effect of subsidies and grants on the development of Atlantic Canada, Gwyn endorses McMahon's argument that a normal policy regieme rather than distorting subsidies would have been preferable. Gwyn is the latest in a series of columnists and editorial writers to base their analysis of the problems facing Atlantic Canada on the recently published AIMS book.
Creating jobs, at maximum cost
In an editorial in the Financial Post, noted economic commentator Neville Nankivell quotes extensively from AIMS' new book, "Retreat from Growth" to bolster his argument that government funded job creation schemes are costly and ineffective.
Past spending policy has damaged Canada’s unity and economy
In an op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail, Toronto-based analyst John Koopman analyses the impact on Canadian unity and the economy of 25 years of unbalanced tax and spending policy. He draws on AIMS' work to examine the impact of these policies on Atlantic Canada.
Old ways suit Ottawa’s needs, not region’s
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley examines the questions that no one is asked about the Prime Minister's July 2000 announcement of $700-million in spending in the Atlantic region. Here's an extract: "What exactly is the problem that Ottawa is trying to fix? By making this announcement, Ottawa drives home yet again, both inside and outside the region, the message that we're a "have-not" region. Unless we get a handout from taxpayers in other parts of the country, we're going nowhere and, worst of all, that we're failures at the high-tech game. But none of these things is true."
Nova Scotia’s Wefare Trap
Who do you think pays the highest tax rates in Nova Scotia? Those earning over $80,000? Over $100,000? Over $250,000? It's none of the above. In fact, the highest marginal tax rate in Nova Scotia falls on poor families with kids when those families struggle to move off welfare and into paid work.
Caught in the welfare trap: Region’s highest tax rates paid by poorest Atlantic Canadians
AIMS study recommends welfare and tax reforms on eve of new National Child Benefit payment by Ottawa