Debtors’ Prison II:
AIMS benchmark report on the Atlantic provinces debt accumulation.
Time to get “Back to Basics”, AIMS tells Nova Scotia Program Review Task Force
Institute’s submission offers a strategy for innovative thinking about public sector program review
AIMS s’adresse au groupe de travail chargé de l’examen des programmes du secteur public (Nova Scotia Program Review Task Force)
L’institut propose une stratégie innovatrice pour repenser les programmes du secteur public.
Are the provinces entitled to Ottawa’s surplus?
The provincial finance ministers have struck a joint agreement aimed at pressing Paul Martin to direct the looming federal surplus towards tax cuts and greater transfers to provincial budgets. But just whose surplus is it, anyway?
Nova Scotia faces Troubling Times
Publication:HDN October 24, 1999. By Fred McMahon
The Future of the Past
St. John's -- The Heritage Canada Foundation held its annual national conference in St. John's, Newfoundland on 22 and 23 October 1999 on the theme "Social Changes and Heritage Strategies". The Foundation invited AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley to be on a panel to help set the "big picture" for the conference delegates by identifying those social and economic trends most relevant to their deliberations.
Don’t wait for spring, AIMS urges Nova Scotia Finance Minister.
Act on the debt now.
NS debt: Neil LeBlanc’s still $1-billion short
Two months after voters swept Premier John Hamm's Conservatives into power, Mr. LeBlanc announced his assessment of just how bad the fiscal situation is in Nova Scotia. The numbers are sobering. For example, far from the $22-million surplus claimed by the previous government for the last fiscal year, the province ran a deficit of $370.5-million. Far worse are the debt numbers.
Welfare reform helps keep economy working
Labour Day, 1999 and millions of former welfare recipients will celebrate, many for the first time, their own work and the opportunity that brings. Welfare reform's astonishing success has startled even its most optimistic proponents. In many places, welfare "as we know it" is coming to end. Fred McMahon in the National Post
Government investment ends as financial disaster
Publications:MTT, HDN August 15, 1999. By Fred McMahon