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1. Protection or prosperity?

   Appeared in The American Thinker, February 22, 2017 President Donald Trump has vowed to renegotiate NAFTA, which he calls “a disaster.” But before he tears up the trade deal and walls America off from the world with a man-made mountain of tariffs, let’s ...

2. Global free trade, an essential element of economic freedom, is under threat

   China throws up barriers to international competition and assaults foreign investment. ...

3. Growing government, increased regulation primary threats to economic freedom in Canada

   Since comprehensive data for Economic Freedom became available in 1970, Canada’s had a secure place in the world’s top 10 jurisdictions. But could Canada be at the beginning of a long slow decline, like the one that has afflicted the ...

4. Trump’s fulsome attack on free trade and the dangers for Canada

   In the wake of Donald Trump’s angry, vividly anti-free trade inaugural address, world leaders are already girding themselves for a global trade war they pray never happens. Canada has tried to set a neutral, albeit pro-free trade tone ...

5. Economic freedom takes force off the table, creates mutually beneficial incentives

   Why is economic freedom important? Is it intrinsically valuable or is it valuable because of the outcomes it produces? That was a key question when then-Fraser Institute executive director Michael Walker and Milton and Rose Friedman ...

6. Alberta turns away from economic freedom

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, December 14, 2016 Each year, the Fraser Institute publishes the “Economic Freedom of North America” report, which compares economic freedom in the provinces of Canada and states of the United States and Mexico. Historically, ...

7. Economic Freedom of North America 2016

   Economic Freedom of North America 2016 is the twelfth 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 2014, supportive of economic freedom, the ability of ...

8. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2016 Annual Report

   Economic Freedom of the Arab World aims to provide a reliable and objective metric of economic policy throughout the Arab World. It measures the extent to which citi-zens of the nations of the Arab League are able to make their own economic decisions ...

9. History is clear—high tariffs and trade wars devastate countries

   Canada raised tariffs in the 1930s and sunk into the Great Depression. ...

10. Government policies threaten economic freedom in Canada

    Appeared in the National Post, September 15, 2016 Canada ranks a remarkable fifth in the world in economic freedom, just behind Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Switzerland. The “land of the maple leaf” is far ahead of our southern neighbour, ...