Lack of economic freedom costs individual Canadians thousands of dollars each year

For defenders of government-run health care, the existence of provincial drug benefit plans is actually a blot on Canadian health care, in that they are not part of single-payer, first-dollar coverage, medicare (National Forum on Health, 1997:22). When the state took over health care, it left prescription drugs out of its grasp. As of 2001, governments in Canada paid for an estimated 49 percent of prescription costs, private insurers 30 percent, and individuals 21 percent.

The physical phenomena in climate change and weather are among the most complex in nature, and science can say very little about what they will do in the future. Yet a large international policy framework has been built precisely on the assumption that we know what is happening and how to control it. In Taken By Storm , Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick prove this assumption false, carefully explaining the science of climate change and deconstructing the widespread myth of global warming.

This is a series of articles on Democratic Reform. These articles were originally published in previous issues of Fraser Forum from October 2001 - October 2002:

Democratic Reform: Part I - VIII

- October 2001 - Part I - This article explains the three levels of democratic reform that Canadians should consider.

- November 2001 - Part II - This article discusses why, in many areas, the real need is not for more democratic government, but much less.

- December 2001 - Part III - Subsidiarity - When power is divided, the control of government is simplified, which minimizes the size of mistake any single power centre can make.

- January 2002 - Part IV - The best way to control governments is to keep them small.

- February 2002 - Part V - Our Canadian system of governance is well suited for a primitive society that needs a strong man. We no longer fit that profile.

- May 2002 - Part VI - Internal Party Governance

- September 2002 - Part VII - Representation, Oversight, & Adversarial Governance

- October 2002 - Part VIII - Constitutional Constraints