Reading Time: 3 minutes Policy preventing resource extraction puts additional pressure on entrepreneurs, their businesses and taxpayers to pay for provincial government programs
Category: New Brunswick
New Brunswick government finances unsustainable
Reading Time: 3 minutes If the government doesn’t restore provincial finances, future generations will pay the price through debt interest payments
We don’t need elections now, we need leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Elections will turn us away from dealing with the real issues. And we don’t seem to have the means to conduct safe voting
Fracking can lift the Maritimes out of economic doldrums
Reading Time: 3 minutes Maritime provinces and Quebec should be developing their resources now as natural gas prices recover
Canada’s foreign oil imports: $477 billion since 1988
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada is an energy superpower that still imports billions of dollars in foreign oil and that won’t change any time soon
Beware compulsory vaccinations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadians are in greater need of immunity from undue government intrusion than they are from any disease
The restaurant industry can help save the economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes But the federal government and most provinces have failed to help the hospitality sector. Only New Brunswick is making a difference
COVID crisis opportunity for trade reform in Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Eliminating trade barriers can help accelerate the economic recovery
The economic case for tearing down dams
Reading Time: 5 minutes Spending lots of money on hydroelectric projects in the hopes we’ll need the power in the future is a mug’s game, even for big projects
History’s industrial strategy haunts us today
Reading Time: 4 minutes First came 50 years of progress. Then came 50 years of dead fish, stagnant water, methylmercury poisoning, silt buildup and dams collapsing