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It’s a small world, afterall

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Campbell

My father-in-law went to a reception yesterday with Minister Ed Fast, Canada’s Minister of International Trade.  Apparently there is a big trade mission from Canada going on right now here in Brazil.  Brazil is a growing market there is no…

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It’s our hill and these are our beans

Posted on June 28, 2011 by David Campbell

In my favourite movie, Casablanca, Rick tells Ilsa that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this world (or something similar).  In the less famous Hot Shots, Charlie Sheen says “but this is…

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Setting the shale gas context

Posted on June 27, 2011 by David Campbell

I promise I am not going to turn this blog into cheer leading for shale gas development.  However, it is a potentially important industry and the question that those for and against need to answer is “why not New Brunswick”.…

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Energy as a competitive advantage

Posted on June 25, 2011 by David Campbell

It’s kind of funny.  Minister Leonard makes an impassioned defence of NB Power in this opinion piece today positioning the company as a paragon of fiscal management.    He never mentions the stranded debt.  Never mentions the industrial power rate…

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Dispatches from the road: Sao Paulo

Posted on June 24, 2011 by David Campbell

The family and I are here for our now bi-annual pilgrmage to see my in-laws in Brazil.   I was here two years ago but in that short time the country had a significant growth spurt and significant foreign investment flowed…

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Birth of a travelling salesman

Posted on June 22, 2011 by David Campbell

I have made six different public presentations related to economic development in the past two weeks.  I am starting to feel a little bit like a travelling salesman.  I have my pitch lines down and I inject a little rah,…

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Does size matter?

Posted on June 16, 2011 by David Campbell

One of the interesting discussion threads yesterday at the Social Policy Research Network forum (at least in the groups I was in) was this issue of size.    Dr. Haan made the case that he can’t see much correlation between…

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Professor Haan: Rock Star

Posted on June 15, 2011 by David Campbell

I got to see Dr. Michael Haan’s demographics presentation last night for the first time.  Haan is the Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Population and Social Policy at UNB. His stuff is sobering and clearly shows the impact of out-migration…

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Addressing the ‘lost’ generation?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by David Campbell

One of my first and most profound memories as a young government employee in the early 1990s was one where we were trying to determine the ‘available’ workforce in the province.  Essentially, we wanted to determine how many people would…

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Jack Mintz is spoiling for a fight with the CFIB

Posted on June 11, 2011 by David Campbell

Jack Mintz is spoiling for a fight with the CFIB. Providing low taxes and other support for small business has been public policy across Canada for years. Mintz is now suggesting that low small business taxes may be bad for…

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