By JOHN RISLEY (Chairman of AIMS) • Atlantic Business Magazine, 17 Aug 2016 Connect the dots if you can. A narrow majority of Brits have opted for an exit from the European Union, a move which will cost their economy dearly. No matter what the outcome of the negotiations leading to that exit, the process [...]
In a Radio-Canada piece about temporary foreign workers, AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie says, "We must first address the question of local workers ... whom have not been attracted to employment." Read the piece, in French, on the Radio-Canada website.
In New Brunswick's Telegraph-Journal, AIMS Vice-President of Research John Williamson explains how recent changes to Canada's employment insurance system undo the reforms of both the last Conservative government and the preceding Liberal one. The consequence will be a further enticement of young people away from school and full-time work. Read the article at the Telegraph-Journal [...]
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 [...]
In his report, Checking the Math on Childcare, commissioned by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Ian Munro cautions Canadians about promises for a federal childcare program.
One hopes the sitting government — or a new government after the fall election — would take seriously the job of reconciliation with Canada’s indigenous peoples after the release of the recent Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report.
Vince Li, 39, was travelling on a Greyhound bus, and sat next to 22-year-old Tim McLean. For no apparent reason, Mr. Li attacked, killed and decapitated Mr. McLean. The killer reported that voices told him to commit the murder. The court, listening to psychiatric testimony, found him not criminally responsible and sent him to a mental institution. Three years later, many people were appalled when a panel agreed to his occasional release with supervision. Now psychiatrists are stoking more controversy by recommending that Mr. Li transfer to a group home and be allowed unescorted outings. Those who applaud the decision to release Mr. Li must believe that psychiatric experts are clairvoyant, and therefore able to predict whether someone who has once been violent will not be violent again. Dangerous and chaotic behaviour is too unpredictable to allow re-entry into society.
Recent, alarming headlines have provoked many Canadians to take firm, and often conflicting, positions on issues of crime and punishment. Citizens ask how they can protect themselves, while behaving in an ethical way toward those who have committed violent crimes.
AIMS contributor Rick August discusses the state of child welfare in Canada and outlines a number of ways to reform the system. He suggests embracing adoption, for instance, instead of relying on the foster care structure currently embraced by the federal government.
AIMS policy analyst Shaun Fantauzzo discusses the unintended consequences of expanding the Canada Pension Plan.