Since 1997, The Fraser Institute has been surveying mining companies each year to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulation affect exploration investment. Survey results represent the opinions of exploration managers in mining companies operating around the world. As the popularity of the survey has grown, we have expanded it to include more jurisdictions.

The purpose of this study is to examine the consequences of the changed status of the commissions through a review of the behaviour of the ASC, BCSC, and OSC. Evidence suggests the reduced financial accountability inherent in the commissions' changed status appears to have worked to the detriment of low-cost, efficient regulation of the securities industry.

Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools: 2001 Edition. When the Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools was introduced last year, the reaction was immediate. Hundreds of reports and editorials appeared in newspapers and on radio and television across the province.