Fraser Forum Contents

	December 1998 - Contents

	Cover Stories
Laura Jones	Mining Policy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Results from The Fraser Institute survey of senior and junior mining companies are in.
Chris Sporer	An Intelligent Tale of Fish Management There are a number of ways to manage a commercial fishery. Here’s one that works.
Jock Finlayson	Resource Industries Still a Strong Economic Driver BC’s reduced dependence on commodities is a healthy trend. But BC’s economic prosperity is still closely tied to the health of its resource-based industries.
Harry Nelson	Seeing the Forest as well as the Trees While the Asian Flu and the Softwood Lumber Agreement are aggravating the problems in BC’s forestry sector, they are certainly not wholly responsible.
	Articles
Filip Palda	Don’t Restrict Capital Markets Speculators can help flag government mismanagement concerns.
Joel Emes	December Questions and Answers
Joel Emes	December Graph
Jason Clemens and Fazil Mihlar with Johanna Franci	Government Should Get Out of the Small Business Business Granting loans with government guarantees is not the most effective or efficient way to help small and medium-sized businesses obtain financing.
Gary Mauser	Disarming an Imaginary Foe The Alberta Supreme Court’s endorsment of the federal government’s plan to register all firearms should alarm anyone concerned about individual rights and freedoms.
William McArthur, MD	Health Care Injustice: Cheating the Disadvantaged A recent article demonstrates how some preferential access to specialized health care.
Jason Clemens	The Politics of Banking: The Canadian Disadvantage While Canadian bank mergers are undergoing review, our US rivals are quickly gaining a competitive advantage over Canadian banks.
Kate Morrison	Politics Down Under Melbourne, Australia’s Institute of Public Affairs has established a Media Monitoring Unit modelled after the National Media Archive (NMA). Here’s what they’ve found.
Johanna Francis	Honouring Nobel’s Memory A look at the history and the glory surrounding the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Fazil Mihlar and Jason Clemens	Sovereignty Vote in Quebec Means a Federal Election A new government will be needed to negotiate terms of separation, according to a recent survey of investment fund managers.
Melvin Smith, QC	A Faulty Blueprint The author shares his concerns about the Nisga’a Final Agreement.
Michael Walker	Public Labs Cheaper? Rubbish! BC’s private labs make a profit of $25 million a year. If the government takes them over, the people of BC will get all their lab tests done for $25 million less, right? Wrong.