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Goodbye Unemployment, Hello Labour Shortages (Regina)

Guest Speaker: Brian Lee Crowley, President of The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS)

In the 1960s, our huge Boomer generation helped create widespread joblessness and anxiety. That, plus Quebec’s recurring threat to break-up the country, caused Canada to jettison its traditional values — a ferocious work ethic, a commitment to the family as the most important social institution, a suspicion of overweening government and an aversion to dependence — in favour of a vast expansion of the welfare state. But the tide is about to turn with a vengeance. Population ageing is going to bring us labour shortages on a vast scale. Not only will that will change everything we have assumed about Canada in the last 50 years, but the west will lead the way in the transformation that is coming.

In proud cooperation with Paradigm Consulting Group Inc.



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Map to the Ramada Hotel & Convention Centre


About the Guest:

Brian Lee Crowley is the founding President of AIMS, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, one of the world’s most honoured public policy think tanks. He recently served as the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at Finance Canada in Ottawa—the most senior independent economic advisor to the Department of Finance. In 2007 he was named one of the 100 most influential people in Ottawa by The Hill Times. Crowley is a frequent commentator on political and economic issues for the CBC, Radio-Canada and many other media, and is a former member of the Editorial Board of The Globe and Mail and of the National Political Panel on Morningside with the late Peter Gzowski on CBC Radio.


Event Details:

Date: September 28, 2009

Place: Canadian North Room, Ramada Hotel & Convention Centre, 1818 Victoria Avenue, Regina

Time: 11:45am

Cost: $45 for a Reserved Seat and $25 for Students and $360 for a table of 8

Additional Notes: REGISTRATION & CANCELLATION POLICY: Registration must be made before September 23rd to hold seats. Substitutions are allowed. Sorry, no refunds.

Please RSVP to: Online, Phone: 204-977-5050 or 877-219-0033 ext 1, Fax: 204-957-1570 or Mail


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