Who was Barbara Mitchell?
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Economic Freedom of the Arab World 2015 Annual Report

United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain are the top three most economically-free nations in the Arab world, according to Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2015 Annual Report, co-published by the Fraser Institute, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty, and International Research Foundation. This report compares and ranks 21 Arab nations in five areas of economic freedom: size of government, including expenditures, taxes and enterprises; commercial and economic law and security of property rights; access to sound money; freedom to trade internationally; and regulation of credit, labour and business.

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Global Petroleum Survey 2015

The Fraser Institute’s 2015 Global Petroleum Survey —an international survey of senior executives in the upstream oil and gas sector-- ranks 126 jurisdictions around the world based on their barriers to investment (ie: high taxes, costly regulatory obligations and uncertainty over environmental regulations). In addition to the most current rankings, the annual survey allows for regional comparisons and analysis of jurisdictions that have improved, or fallen behind, in terms of government policies that deter oil and gas investment.

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Investor Perceptions of Alberta’s Oil and Gas Policy Changes is a special bulletin examining the Fraser Institute’s 2015 Global Petroleum Survey results for the province of Alberta. The bulletin reveals that perceptions about Alberta as a place to invest are deteriorating thanks in-part to the Alberta government’s recent energy policy initiatives such as an increase to the corporate income tax, changes to environmental policies and a review of the province’s energy royalties.

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Toward Free Trade in Canada

Following the conclusion of negotiations for the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union, the study, Toward Free Trade in Canada: Five Things the Federal Government Can Do To Open our Internal Market, outlines several opportunities for freer trade among Canadian provinces.

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For-profit Hospitals and Insurers in Universal Health Care Countries spotlights how six countries—Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland—make use of for-profit health care within their universal systems. It finds, that based on the experiences of these countries, for-profit hospitals and insurers are compatible with universal health care.

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Expanding Choice in Ontario's Public Schools

Expanding choice in Ontario’s public schools examines initiatives that the Ontario government could implement if it was interested in offering parents more school choice — alternative K-12 public schools that emphasize a specific teaching philosophy, particular language, culture, subject-matter or religion.

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Economic Development in Jeopardy

Economic Development in Jeopardy? Implications of the Saik'uz First Nation and Stellat'en First Nation v. Rio Tinto Decision, spotlights how the recent Supreme Court decision opens the door for future aboriginal title litigation by First Nations groups against private parties —litigation previously only brought against provincial and federal governments.

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