AIMS president Don Cayo asks, "Has Confederation been worth it for Newfoundland ? It's been 50 years since the island province made its first moves toward leaving Britain and federating with another country. Time to look at the balance sheet."
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A lot of Maritimers would tell you that we don’t have the "Indian problem" that seems, to our eyes, endemic in the West. Don Cayo doesn't agree. We don’t have, he argues, as visible a problem. But we have woes that, though different from those in the West, are all too real.
If governments can set and meet targets for reducing the deficit, why not do the same for unemployment?
Don Cayo questions how statistics are used to identify child poverty in Canada. Cayo says people can disagree about whether the degree of income inequality we have in Canada is good or bad. What we should be able to agree on is that income inequality does not equal poverty.
This AIMS commentary criticises the 1997 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples report. While painting an appaling picture of plight of aboriginals, the commission fails to offer anything like an adequate "solution".
Ottawa-bashing, long a favourite local sport, is about to be given a new lease on life by offshore natural gas. At least that is where we seem to be headed in the controversy about how the tax revenues from this natural resource should be shared between Ottawa and Nova Scotia.
INSTITUTE PRESIDENT PROPOSES DRAMATIC OVERHAUL WITH EMPHASIS ON INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
PRÉSIDENT DE AIMS PROPOSE UNE RÉFORME EN PROFONDEUR, METTANT L'ACCENT SUR LA RESPONSABILITÉ INDIVIDUELLE ET LA CROISSANCE ÉCONOMIQUE