The province's non-residential investment declined by -0.1 per cent annually.
new brunswick
Mars 16, 2020
12:08PM
The Higgs government plans to increase program spending by 4.3 per cent.
Octobre 25, 2018
9:39AM
New Brunswick's debt load will climb to an estimated 115 per cent of GDP over the next 25 years.
Août 16, 2016
3:00AM
Adding more renewable electricity generation will not help Atlantic Canadians already burdened with high energy prices.
Décembre 23, 2014
10:00AM
Canada’s federal equalization program is motivated by good intentions. However, the program has unintended consequences, and creates perverse incentives that have allowed at least two “have-not” provinces to shun sensible economic opportunities.
Décembre 15, 2014
11:00AM
New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant, seems poised to follow through on a campaign promise to institute a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
Janvier 8, 2014
2:00AM
Over fifty years, observers have become inured to troubling reports of Atlantic Canada's economic difficulties.
Even the most jaundiced observer would recognize, however, that data for the last two years describes something different. The regional economy is not experiencing continued slow decline: it is starting to implode.
Octobre 25, 2013
2:00AM
The recent native protests in New Brunswick against proposed hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') are not only devoid of facts but harm the potential for prosperity and lower personal taxes. Add in the anti-fracking frothing in neighbouring Nova Scotia, and also in Quebec, and it adds up to ill-advised provincial policies, this despite the safety of fracking.
Before detailing the potential for a lighter personal income tax burden if more resource development was allowed, here are the facts on hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas.