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1. 1. www.atlantica.org

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   Published on: 8/23/2008   Last Visited: 8/23/2008

   In Beyond Trade, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley asks us to throw out our old perceptions of what constitutes trade.
   
   Trade deficit is a four-letter word for some, but Crowley points out that trade deficit statistics tell us nothing meaningful and in fact are used to justify all sorts of mistaken and wrong-headed conclusions.
   
   He examines trade between the United States and Canada, and explains that increasingly Canadians do not make finished products and sell them to Americans, but rather the two countries make things together and then sell them around the world.
   
   Crowley suggests that the whole metaphor of international trade is now too narrow to encompass what is being built around us.He says we have built it without planning it, and indeed, it could not have been planned in all its tremendous complexity and flexibility.
   
   "This new North American reality is under construction all around us by dint of the actions we all take every day.But because it was not planned, and could not have been planned, and because laws and regulations cannot, by their nature, evolve as fast as business, economic and social relationships, what has not caught up yet is the legal, institutional and regulatory frameworks that are still based on the old self-contained national economy model."
   
   Crowley says a broad and open vision is now needed to make changes that reflect the reality of today.He says:

2. 2. Dr. Brian Lee Crowley Appointed to Department of Finance Advisory Post

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   Published on: 11/7/2006   Last Visited: 12/21/2006

   Dr. Brian Lee Crowley Appointed to Department of Finance Advisory Post
   
   Rob Wright, Deputy Minister of Finance, has announced the appointment of Dr. Brian Lee Crowley as the 2006-2007 Clifford Clark Visiting Economist in the Department of Finance.
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   Dr. Crowley is the founding President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Atlantic Canada's public policy think tank.He has published many books and papers on a wide range of public policy issues and has taken a leadership role in work on equalization, health care, Canada-U.S. relations, public school performance and accountability, employment insurance reform, natural resources and public finances, constitutional reform and regional development policy.He has twice won the Sir Antony Fisher Prize for excellence in think tank publications.A prominent member of the international think tank community, he is a former Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, and he serves as a director or member of the research advisory boards of think tanks in Winnipeg, Paris, Lagos and Bangor, Maine.He is also a former president of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council.
   
   In recognition of his work on health care policy, Dr. Crowley was named to the Alberta Premier's Advisory Council on Health (the Mazankowski Committee).During the Meech Lake negotiations he represented the Government of Manitoba.The Government of Nova Scotia named him Secretary of the Nova Scotia Working Committee on the Constitution (the Kierans Committee) and he subsequently acted as a negotiator for that province in the Charlottetown Accord negotiations.
   
   A native of Vancouver, Dr. Crowley holds degrees from McGill University (B.A. Hons.) and the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Hons. and Ph.D. in political economy) and has taught politics, economics and philosophy at numerous universities, including Dalhousie University, the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, the City of London Polytechnic and the Université d'été d'Aix-en-Provence.He is also widely regarded as a gifted communicator on complex public policy questions.He is a former member of the Editorial Board of The Globe and Mail, a columnist in numerous Canadian newspapers, including La Presse, and a frequent commentator on CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV and many other electronic media outlets.

3. 3. Atlas Economic Research Foundation :: The Atlas Experience- Speaker Biographies

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   Published on: 8/7/2008   Last Visited: 8/7/2008

   BRIAN LEE CROWLEY is the founding president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Atlantic Canada's public policy think tank.He is currently the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist with the federal Department of Finance.Among his many books and publications, Crowley co-authored two projects on the Canadian health-care system, both of which won the Sir Antony Fisher Award.He was also named to the most influential provincial health-care inquiry in Canada, the Alberta Premier's Advisory Council on Health (Mazankowski Committee).Crowley is also the president of Civitas, a public policy institute which promotes an understanding of the principles of free and ordered society, the director of the Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education, and the Maine Public Policy Institute.In addition, he serves on numerous think tank advisory boards around the world.