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NF gasoline price regulation no boon for consumers

By Peter Fenwick| 2016-04-04T19:03:41+00:00 June 28th, 2002|Op-ed|

According to former AIMS Director of Communications, Peter Fenwick, the gasoline price regulation scheme now before the Newfoundland House of Assembly is far worse than the disease it is supposed to cure. Here is an extract from his article: "Given the historic opposition of the government to imposing gas regulation it is clear that this is a smoke screen designed to curry political favour, and to obscure the role taxes play in keeping oil prices high. The legislation is designed to reduce criticism rather than oil prices. When [Minister] Matthews introduced the bill he said 'So, on the basis of the lack of confidence... by the people of the Province, and on the basis of the... representations that all of us have had from the general public,... it is appropriate to bring in a petroleum products regulatory regime...'" "Nowhere does he say that it is a good idea."

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New Brunswick myopic on energy regulation

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2002-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 May 8th, 2002|In the Media|

Natural Gas in Atlantic Canada has already brought many hundreds of millions of dollars to our economy with new supplies, technology, and investment into the region. Unfortunately, New Brunswick is trying to change the rules in the middle of the game — rules on which a lot of this investment was based, — and introduce regulatory barriers to companies wishing to export to consumers in New England. AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley suggests in his regular column that the whim of politicians trying to win votes by artificially driving up supply and lowering gas costs could be scaring away potential investors, restricting access to vital U.S. markets, and once again blindsiding the offshore industry with their short-sighted vision of the offshore’s future. Publication: CHH & MTT May 8 2002

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Brian Flemming on Regulatory Reform

By Brian Flemming| 2016-04-05T12:44:45+00:00 July 1st, 2001|Op-ed|

Media commentator, businessman and policy analyst Brian Flemming is one of the country’s leading voices on the future of government regulation in the age of the new economy, the Internet, globalization and consumer empowerment. Below you will find a continuing series of articles that touch on all aspects of regulation, how it affects our lives, the forms that it is likely to take in the future, and the forces shaping regulatory reform in Atlantic Canada and elsewhere

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Port-Ability

By Brian Lee Crowley, Charles Cirtwill, James Frost| 2016-04-07T18:19:05+00:00 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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Hewers of wood, drawers of tainted water

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 May 14th, 2001|In the Media|

In his column in the Halifax Herald on Canada's drinking water problems, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley asks: "Why have people not been charged the full cost of their water, including needed investment to keep the infrastructure up to par? Because politicians get elected for making people feel good today, not for taking care of tomorrow. By underinvesting in the water system, and undercharging for water, they please voters today. But the necessary investment and improvements cannot be put off indefinitely. Walkerton and North Battleford are only the most obvious manifestations of the insidious decline caused by a political system that allows politicians to reward voters today at the expense of voters tomorrow. " Publication: CHH, May 9, 2001, OC, May 14, 2001

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The Private Foundations of Canada

By Brian Lee Crowley| 2016-04-05T12:46:28+00:00 February 13th, 2001|Op-ed|

The Private Foundations of Canada, the umbrella group representing private charitable foundations in Canada, recently held a Members' Seminar in Toronto where the theme was "Engaging the public in the public policy process". AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was invited to address the Seminar about the challenges facing democracy.

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Regulators and their conflict of interest

By Brian Flemming| 2016-04-05T12:52:46+00:00 October 26th, 2000|Op-ed|

The financial conflicts of interest that politicians occasionally find themselves in, and that so entertain the press, are minor compared to the conflicts their departments enter into by routinely both regulating and financing, insuring and promoting industry. From the Westray mine disaster, through aquaculture, to genetically-modified foods, this conflict in roles only leads to trouble. If governments want to regulate, they should only regulate. If they want to do more, they should hand over the regulatory job to some other agency.

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Water export bans all wet

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-10-25T00:00:00+00:00 October 25th, 2000|In the Media|

About 80,000 cubic meters of fresh water flows out of Canada every second and into the ocean or across the border. Taking some small part of it and selling it for a good price hardly seems high treason. After all, every barrel of oil and pound of zinc Canada produces and sells is gone forever. Yet those businesses are perfectly respectable, while realizing some economic benefit from a properly managed renewable resource like water, is today thought to be profoundly unCanadian.

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Mutant madness: Let’s resist the temptation to label all genetically modified food as Frankenfood

By Brian Flemming| 2016-04-05T12:52:26+00:00 September 26th, 2000|Op-ed|

“These and other issues, must be thrashed out in an open and transparent way within the current regulatory framework if Canada is to avoid the demagogic fear-mongering Europe has been wallowing in for years. The objective must be to give intelligent consumers enough balanced information to allow them, not the government, to make basic choices.

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A toast to liquor privatization

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 August 30th, 2000|In the Media|

Nove Scotia should press ahead with its proposed privatisation of the province's government liquor monopoly if Alberta's experience is any guide, says AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley. "... here's the trade-off we'll be facing if the government follows through on its promises: four times the employment, five times the product selection, lower liquor prices, many new tax-paying businesses, longer service hours. In other words, a consumer and taxpayer bonanza versus preserving a handful of protected jobs that pay way over the odds at the expense of consumers and taxpayers throughout the province." Publication: CHH, August 30, 2000.

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