This new AIMS study, the first in AIMS Oil & Gas Series, outlines a win-win strategy to reduce the overall cost of equalization and put more money into the hands of the provinces in the long term. The paper’s author Ken…

It may seem like an odd time to forecast a rebalancing of power between Ottawa and the provinces with the forces for centralization as strong as they are in Ottawa.  However, the current realignment of two provinces — Ontario and…

Please allow me the liberty of quoting at length the last paragraph in Mr. MacLean’s editorial. Names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the innocent:  “This country has many senior rank economists, including ones in Atlantic Canada, possessing…

Sometimes you have to take government at its word.  In the case of the latest Alberta budget, two sentences in the government’s fiscal plan suggest its spending plans are unsustainable.  Exhibit A is the sentence at the top of page…

After 44 years and $180-billion dollars in equalization spending (not adjusted for inflation) the Atlantic provinces are only barely more able to meet the needs of their citizens with their own revenue sources than they were when equalization was introduced…