In Volume II of this series they tackle the goal of giving Canadians the highest quality of life in the world, focusing on improving the provision of K-12 education, welfare, health care, and child care. They show how Canada can become the world's most caring nation - in practice - by implementing policies based on sound principles and powerful fact-based research.

This publication has been written to inform Canadians about the theories and insights of Public Choice Theory, to document government failure from the reports of the Auditor General, and, perhaps most importantly, to describe the mechanisms available to reduce government failure.

This paper recommends a continuation of the efforts to achieve a better use of the high skill levels of the recent wave of educated immigrants. However, its main recommendation involves a fundamental reform of Canada's immigration selection process to prevent the need for such measures and to avoid large costs to taxpayers in the future.