Jerry Earle of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees and Richard Alexander of the Newfoundland and Labrador Employers' Council. Listen to the Full Interview HERE.
By David MacKinnon and Marco Navarro-Genie Even a brief glance at the economies of the Atlantic Region in early 2016 indicates that a time of reckoning is at hand. Deficits are growing and threaten to become solvency crises. Regional outmigration has slowed down but continues. Remittances from Western Canada are almost certainly falling rapidly. For [...]
This article appeared on CBC News. A Halifax-based advocacy group says Newfoundland and Labrador should cut the number of its employees to deal with its significant fiscal challenges. Marco Navarro-Genie, president and CEO of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, said that his group found that Newfoundland and Labrador has more public workers per capita [...]
AIMS president Marco Navarro-Genie discusses Atlantic Canada's spending problem on The Rick Howe show. Listen to the interview here: Click here to visit SpendingProblem.ca!
AIMS President Marco Navarro-Genie speaks about NS Bill 148 on News 95.7 Radio.
Provincial public sector employment rates in the Atlantic region, relative to population, are higher than in the rest of Canada. Nationally in 2013, 17.8 % of all jobs were in the provincial public sector. By contrast, in the Atlantic provinces, this figure is 22.6%. Atlantic provincial governments could reduce the gap by half, [...]
Canada’s premiers have a critical role to play in keeping Canada’s economy moving forward while abiding by our excellent environmental standards and ensuring that radical environmentalists do not impair Atlantic Canada’s chances for economic growth or the prosperity of Canadians.
A report commissioned by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) and written by Dr. Kevin Milligan, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, suggests the recommendations of the seven-month-old Broten Review are steps in the right direction in terms of fairness in Nova Scotia`s tax system.
Student activists often argue in favour of eliminating tuition fees in Canada for post-secondary education, but it's an inefficient policy strategy. Supporters of very low tuition rates argue that this policy approach can help improve university participation rates, but post-secondary participation rates are no higher in provinces like Quebec and Manitoba where tuition [...]
Halifax – A report commissioned by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) and written by Dr. Kevin Milligan, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, suggests the recommendations of the seven-month-old Broten Review are steps in the right direction in terms of fairness in Nova Scotia`s tax system. According to Marco Navarro-Genie, AIMS president and [...]