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1. Economic Freedom of North America 2019

   Economic Freedom of North America 2019 is the fifteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2017, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and ...

2. Economic Freedom of the World: 2019 Annual Report

   The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to enter ...

3. Size of government matters

   In one way or another every public policy debate ultimately comes down to a decision between whether resources are best kept by the workers, entrepreneurs and businesses that create them versus government extracting resources through ...

4. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2018 Annual Report

   Wherever true economic freedom takes root, it creates opportunity for all by eliminating obstacles to success. Economic freedom is simply the ability of individuals and families to make their own economic decisions and take advantage of opportunities and ...

5. Economic Freedom of North America 2018

   Economic Freedom of North America 2018 is the fourteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which the policies of individual provinces and states were, in 2016, supportive of economic freedom, the ability ...

6. Economic Freedom of the World: 2018 Annual Report

   The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to enter ...

7. Will shrinking city council actually save Torontonians money?

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, September 12, 2018 Premier Doug Ford’s government is pushing ahead with its plan to shrink the size of Toronto City Council, despite Monday’s Superior Court ruling that Ford’s plan is unconstitutional, by invoking the ...

8. Toronto City Council reduction—a distraction from greater priorities

   Ford plan's reported savings represent only $2.33 per Torontonian per year. ...

9. Who's better having the money—governments or individual Canadians

   Appeared in the Financial Post, January 17, 2018 Much, if not all policy debates, ultimately boil down to a single fundamental question—is the city, province or country, and more specifically its residents, better off having more or less of their income. ...

10. Economic Freedom of North America 2017

    Economic Freedom of North America 2017 is the thirteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which the policies of individual provinces and states were, in 2015, supportive of economic freedom, the ability ...