The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been, and continues to be, profoundly important to Canadian democracy…. It is virtually unique in its breadth of ideas and its depth of research.
- Ed Broadbent
September 25, 2003
(Halifax) A report released by the CCPA today finds that Canadian ports need to take a sober and realistic look at their expectations of the cruise industry. The study finds that, in their rush to embrace the cruise industry, Canadian ports have paid insufficient attention to the costs of development and tended to overestimate income. "Charting a Course: The Cruise Industry, the Government of Canada and Purposeful Development" is the first study to lay out all of the issues that a port city needs to consider in developing cruise ship tourism.