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This Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's twelfth attempt to document the extent to which queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures are being used to control health care expenses. When we began producing waiting-list measures in 1988, there was anecdotal evidence that hospital waiting times were becoming significant. However, there were no systematic measurements of the extent of waiting.

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Securities regulators, including the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), have been strongly vocal about the need for good corporate governance. But good governance is also important for securities regulators to ensure resources are directed towards socially desirable objectives, and used efficiently.

The focus of this study is a comparison of the OSC's governance structure with that of regulators in other countries responsible for securities regulation. The comparison countries are Australia, the US, the UK, and Hong Kong. The intent of the comparisons is to flush out best practices in governance for a modern securities regulator that could possibly be adopted by the OSC.

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Canada's dairy policy is a very complex web of interrelated policies, programs, and people nested in a number of private and public institutions. It is a system whose creation, expansion, and vigorous defence has been motivated almost entirely by milk producers, i.e., dairy farmers. If they wanted to end the elaborate supply management marketing scheme, open up the border to imports, or renounce the cash subsidies from governments, these changes would be made very quickly by governments.

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There are four different but overlapping regimes of private-property rights-customary rights, certificates of possession, land codes under the First Nations Land Management Act, and leases-already exist on reserves across Canada, as do several unique regimes, such as the Sechelt and Nisga'a cases.

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Within the United States, the image of the medically uninsured being denied important medical treatment stirs the emotions of the American public, while the issue of how to address this problem has bedevilled American politicians throughout the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The spectre of the medically uninsured in America haunts Canada as well.

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This 6th global economic freedom report, by James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, ranks 123 nations on 37 variables with data back to 1970. Economic freedom is based on personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and protection of the person and property. This requires the rule of law, property rights, limited government intervention, freedom to trade, and sound money.

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In response to requests from across the province, The Fraser Institute has developed, and today released, the inaugural Report Card on Alberta's Elementary Schools .

This annual Report Card uses relevant, publicly-available data to rate and rank 757 of Alberta's public, separate, private, charter, and francophone elementary schools. This is the first time in Canada that such a comprehensive report on elementary schools has been widely distributed.