The provision of welfare and related services is a sensitive undertaking requiring a delicate balance between the compassionate delivery of services to those in need and the maintenance of fiscal prudence. Both Canada and the United States reformed welfare in the last eight years. Reforms in the United States went further and have been more successful. This study summarizes the reforms undertaken in both countries with emphasis placed on successful innovations and experimentation.

This study looks at retail prices of three patented prescription drugs in three American and three Canadian areas along the border between Canada and the United States. Although finding that Canadian prices are significantly lower than American prices, it also finds significant differences in prices within each of these areas, as well as between areas in the same country.

This book considers the potential of market-based policies to address the problems facing Canadian education. It offers the results of systematic research into the effects that other market-based education reforms have had in Canada and around the world where they have been tried and tested, in some cases for years, in others for generations.