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This report is a continuation of an ongoing process designed to develop a comprehensive and accurate measure of economic freedom across countries. The roots of the project go back more than a decade.

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Almost 1.5 million Canadians are out of work. While there has been much discussion about the problem, solutions have proven elusive. Canadian governments appear to be ignoring the international experience and the potential solutions it provides.

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The siren call of pure no-fault automobile insurance echoes once more in Canada. This time its seductive strains are heard in British Columbia. The imminent introduction of no-fault insurance raises familiar questions. Is no-fault automobile insurance better than a tort liability system in containing premium costs, producing fairer awards and reducing injuries? The quick answer, based on empirical evidence of no-fault insurance and economic theory, is that no-fault does not deliver the benefits promised; it simply redistributes the costs which may actually increase.

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The current Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's sixth attempt to document the extent to which queues are being used as a means of adapting to the conflict between limited budgetary allocations and potentially unlimited demand for free health care.

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Is there a reason for continued state ownership of BC Hydro? Is a monopoly still necessary and desirable for electric utilities?

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This book focuses on the health care system in Canada along two sight lines. The first is evidence from other countries about how their health care systems are functioning and what reforms they are pursuing. The second is the requirements for policy change in Canada, using the province of British Columbia to illustrate many specific policy details. The reform proposals that emerge are intended to provide a restructuring of incentives to ensure that the choices made by system participants are economic in the sense that they reflect the alternative uses to which resources might be put.

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This is the second in The Fraser Institute series on crime in Canada. The purpose of this primer is to describe the kinds of crime to which Canadians are exposed, who is at risk for those crimes, who commits them, some of the costs the victims face, and some of the expenditures we make to prevent crime. To understand what changes we may want to make in our criminal justice system, it is important to see the overall patterns of crime and punishment, how they have evolved and what they have cost.

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