Reading Time: 3 minutes Attempting to fight high deficits while maintaining high tax rates will reduce the province’s economic growth prospects
Tag: Nova Scotia economy
Let private enterprise retail cannabis in Nova Scotia
Reading Time: 3 minutes A private retail model offers more entrepreneurship overall and better distribution, particularly in rural areas
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
Gasoline price-fixing harms Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Controls were intended to ease consumer anger over rare but large price fluctuations. But government isn’t meant to be an anger management therapist
Looking for affordable housing? Try Atlantic provinces
Reading Time: 3 minutes In an age of bloated house prices in many urban centres, Atlantic Canada’s situation is enviable
Atlantic Canada doesn’t know what real austerity feels like
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending has risen steadily in the last generation, and anti-austerity activists clearly need to regain their equilibrium
Atlantic Canada’s oversized public sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Money can be saved by paring the size of the public sector, finding efficiencies, privatizing some services and controlling wages
Atlantic provinces should join western free-trade deal
Reading Time: 3 minutes An east-west trade confederation would harmonize a variety of standards, saving time and money and removing roadblocks to economic growth
Atlantic Canada hurt by Liberal reversal of their own EI policies
Reading Time: 4 minutes By making benefits too easy to access, a cycle of unemployment is created that discourages the pursuit of education
There is no silver bullet to economic prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes No single project or government program will miraculously rescue Atlantic Canada from its depressed economy