It's The Economy, Stupid

You know that I am a big supporter of the New Brunswick goverment being competitive on business incentives. I don’t buy the notion that we can’t ‘compete’ with other provinces or states for incentives. However, I also believe that incentives…

This makes sense. With the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives it’s almost as if anything that includes the two dreaded words ‘united’ and ‘states’, it must be evil. The fact that Atlantic Canada is more poor, less educated and has…

This comes as no surprise. It has been rumoured for months that Lord would end up in Montreal. Good for him. For a lot of ex-Premiers life after politics can be cruel and marginal. I hope he can craft a…

Here’s the first few lines of an op-ed in the T&T today: By Gilles Lepage and Francis McGuireN.B. Self Sufficiency Task ForcePublished Monday February 19th, 2007Appeared on page D7 Change isn’t coming to New Brunswick; it is already here. For…

On Friday, the Premier announced he would be setting up a population growth secretariat that will start up on April 1. For once, I agree with Jeannot Volpe. There is a population secretariat already in place. Has been for several…

According to the Reader’s Digest ‘Wallet’ test, Monctonians are the most honest people in Canada. But we do like to fib once in a while. Al Hogan’s got a survey out this morning in the T&T showing that 92% of…

Statistics Canada is out with it’s report on Foreign and Domestic Investment in Canada. You will be happy to know I have been wrong all alone and Jeannot Volpe has been right. His little tax cuts have spurred massive foreign…

Sigh. Objectivity is not very objective these days. But I guess at least we know where the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is coming from. For such a presumptious name, you might think they would be serving up some actual…

This is very interesting. I’ll let you read it and see what you think. Just remember that New Brunswick has zero foreign offices and zero economic development employees located in foreign markets.

Poor old journalists have likely been the target of the majority of my consternation over the 2.5 years I have penned this blog and the 15 years I have been dusting off the old soap box on a daily basis.…