No man is an island. What is true of individuals is doubly true of societies. When even in authoritarian societies such as Iran and China, YouTube videos from Tunisia, Britain or Argentina can be viewed the instant they are posted, even the humble and the oppressed know what life is like elsewhere.
Brian Lee Crowley
Brian Lee Crowley, Founding President of AIMS, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
Frontier Conversation with the author of Fearful Symmetry – the Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values and what the future holds for Canada’s labour market.
Exiting the Transfer Payment Game
One idea that has received a great deal of currency in recent years is that of transferring to the provinces the sales tax field and allowing them to collect the GST and set the rate within their borders in exchange for an end to Ottawa’s transfers in many areas of social policy.
How Immigration Could Save America
Suppose that one million new immigrants responded to this opportunity. Unlike most foreign investors, these are people who would be making the ultimate commitment to America, choosing to live there and ultimately becoming citizens. These one million new investors would put $200-billion into the housing market immediately, soaking up excess supply without drawing on the strained balance sheets of financial institutions.
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Medicare Status Quo Argument Ailing
Despite the repeated affirmations of the medicare establishment that there is no serious academic research establishing that private care can help lower prices or improve efficiency, all this proves is their ignorance of the very literature they’re citing.
The Help that Hurts
The President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Brian Lee Crowley discusses how equalization harms Saskatchewan in a Frontier Centre speech in Regina, April 20, 2005
Consumer Power Overtaking the CRTC
The acquisition of information is no longer in the hands of elites, and the CRTC outh to get out of the way.
The Republican Future
The Republican sweep is a watershed event in postwar history which portends a major intellectual shift in the war of ideas.
Seasonal EI wasteful, stunts economic growth
Brian Lee Crowley, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, dissects the effects of Employment Insurance on the Maritime provinces.
Deconstitutionalizing Equalization
Equalization reform is possible despite its symbolic mention in our constitution.
Ten Myths about Canadian Medicare
A short critique of Canada’s Medicare system which explores 10 common myths used by its defenders.
Why I am a Recovering Electoral Reformer
Don’t rush on voting system reform..