Reading Time: 3 minutes Why has the premier shied away from delivering tax relief?
Tag: New Brunswick economy
Freer cross-Canada trade will most benefit Atlantic provinces
Reading Time: 3 minutes A number of restrictions inhibit labour mobility, as well as the free trade of goods and services. And trade barriers add regulatory burdens on businesses
Atlantic Canada facing a political vulnerability
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fiscal federalism, the lifeblood of the region’s economy, faces increasing pressure for reform, especially in the post-COVID-19 world
How Atlantic Canada fortunes and oil and gas are intertwined
Reading Time: 3 minutes Policy preventing resource extraction puts additional pressure on entrepreneurs, their businesses and taxpayers to pay for provincial government programs
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
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
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
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
Trudeau’s small business tax grab will hit Atlantic Canada hard
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s plan is confiscatory and destructive for a region where everyone already pays far too much in tax