Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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This second edition of How Good is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to other countries that also have universal access, publicly funded health care systems.

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This report brings together available data concerning environmental trends in five primary categories: air quality; water quality; natural resources; land use and condition; and solid wastes. Each of these sections contains trend data and a general discussion. In some cases, the discussion points to the need for more data.

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Myths abound on the issue of public versus private auto insurance. Some people posit that public auto insurance is safer, cheaper, less discriminatory, and more generous than private insurance.

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The 2001 Annual Report of Ontario's Provincial Auditor indicates that the public school system is failing special needs students. Adequacy of funding does not appear to be the source of the problem.

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Ontario's public health expenditures now total almost $32 billion and account for 6.4 percent of the provincial economy, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). They have grown by 60 percent in nominal terms over the past decade.

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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.

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The Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools: 2004 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one easily accessible, public document so that all interested parties - parents, school administrators, teachers, students, and taxpayers - can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools.

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