Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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Many drugs, generics in particular, are significantly more expensive in Canada than they are in the United States. On balance between the higher prices paid for brand name drugs and the much lower prices paid for generic drugs in the US, Americans spend about the same percentage of their incomes on prescription drugs as Canadians.

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Economic freedom measures the extent to which individuals, families, businesses, and other organizations are free to make economic decisions without of government interference.

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This report looks at the amount of money Canadian governments of all levels spent on corporate welfare over a 10-year period. It provides repayment records by year with respect to specific programs or agencies involved in corporate welfare.

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This study presents information about the size of government in Canada by accounting for the number of Canadians who are paid by governments as civil servants and beneficiaries of social insurance programs. It supplements the annual Tax Freedom Day studies published by The Fraser Institute to track the size of Canadian governments and the fiscal burdens they impose on Canadians.

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There has been increasing interest in the broad issue of foreign business activity in Canada. This heightened interest has been facilitated by the purchase of foreign companies of several large Canadian firms.

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This 2007 edition of How Good Is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to other countries that also have universal access, publicly funded, health care systems.

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The Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools: 2007 Edition (hereafter, Report Card) collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By doing so, the Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

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