Finance committee  There is a significant and burgeoning high-tech and start-up field in all four provinces. We have some aero industry in P.E.I. This is all over the place, so it's not just in Halifax, although I think the largest concentration is in Halifax. We know that it is very difficult fo

Finance committee  I hate to make predictions. I'm not a demographer, but it seems to me that it's pretty clear that at some point we'll run out of young people to export.

Finance committee  On that score, I think one point to keep in mind is that the regional governments in Atlantic Canada are being more or less fairly disciplined when it comes to their spending, unlike the federal government.

Finance committee  I suppose that's true.

Finance committee  In Atlantic Canada the problem is even more acute than in the rest of the country.

Finance committee  Correct.

Finance committee  Yes, sir. I find the reference of 50 years quite telling, because 50 years ago more or less we had a federal minister who proposed more or less similar changes to the tax code, an MP from Cape Breton, Mr. MacEachen, and those were reversed. The compounding effect of higher taxes

Finance committee  Yes, Mr. Fergus. Thank you for your question. I was not referring to a historical dynamic, but rather to a calculation we just did, a few days ago, concerning only three factors: personal income, fuel revenue and consumer product tax rates. When we put all that together and tak

Finance committee  I don't have the figures going back 50 years, but it seems to me that what you are saying is not right. Fifty years ago, people were not paying as much tax compared with....

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, honourable members of the committee, and witnesses, good morning. I'm grateful for the chance to appear before you on behalf of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies this morning. Among the greatest killers of productivity are less-tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. It's been a while since the word has been out that the decline in population here is causing shortages of labour for different reasons. There's a natural growth that is stagnant and has now become negative in Nova Scotia. As well, there is the issue of the flight of skilled

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have great universities, a great culture, and wonderful natural settings, all of which attract people. The issue is keeping them. The only thing that will keep them and generate the wealth we need to be able to pay for the universities and the infrastructure we have is an expa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A concerted effort from the universities in Atlantic Canada is a very well-oiled machinery to attract more international students. The reference I made was that we must attract American immigrants. I wasn't talking precisely about students in that sense. Certainly, we view Amer

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the committee, good afternoon. I am grateful for the chance to appear before you on behalf of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies this afternoon. Alarm bells have been sounding about the declining population of Atlantic Canada. The r

Finance committee  I'd be happy to comment, and Finn has things to say as well. This is, as the cliché goes, a shovel-ready project. If we're looking to provide a stimulus to the economy, this is one that is ready to go, provided of course that the proper environmental safeguards are in place. Oil