Finance committee  That's an interesting question. I guess Energy East was a kind of tag line at the end. I just wanted to make the point of how important that is. Energy East is something that the provinces do want to do. I think they'll do it in partnership with the federal government review, wh

Finance committee  Very quickly, the energy east pipeline in New Brunswick has bipartisan support. The Liberals support it, and the Conservatives support it. It has bipartisan support. The NDP supports it as well. It has overwhelming support. The message, I think, is well known and well heard. By a

Finance committee  Incentives always matter in that any government program or system is going to incentivize people to behave one way or another. The challenge for policy-makers, for the men and women in this room and Parliament, is to have the foresight when they put together a program to envision

Finance committee  Look, I want to be clear here. I don't want to leave you with the wrong impression. I certainly do not suggest that infrastructure spending can't be beneficial or is not beneficial for communities and for provinces—far from it. My point was that the platform commitments the Liber

Finance committee  We've all seen the reports over the last couple of years about the gap that exists between the public sector and the private sector, the cost of the current government system, and the need for reform. Reform is needed for two reasons, I think. One, of course, is the cost savings

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. First of all, I'd like to be very clear on a point you made. It is actually not beneficial for people to leave a region. We see that now in Atlantic Canada, where the drain of young workers is having a serious negative economic impact on the region.

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman and members of the House of Commons finance committee, I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies to offer our viewpoint to you. There are, of course, many challenges facing the new government, and indeed the government will want t