Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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This speech was presented a Fraser Institute Round Table Luncheon on June 11, 2003.

As The Economist's editor in chief for the past decade, Bill Emmott has had a prime vantage point from which to observe the pageant of world events. In his new book 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century, he combines journalistic insights with historical analysis to show how the challenges of the last hundred years can shed light on those to come in the next hundred.

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This paper focuses on the ability of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations in Canada's Parliament to hold ministers accountable.

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This annual Report Card is the only one of its kind to analyze relevant, publicly-available data to rate and rank 263 of Alberta's public, separate, private, and francophone high schools. The Report Card provides an objective benchmark against which schools can improve.

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The Fraser Institute's fifth study examining Canadian public liabilities reveals that the net direct debt of all three levels of government in Canada fell from $851 billion to $797 billion between 1996/97 and 2000/01. This is a small drop compared to the growth in debt over the last decade: it was only $533 billion in 1990/91.

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In this study, we examine four key components of prosperity in Ontario. First, we evaluate Ontario's economic performance. Second, we present research on the relationship between the size of government in a jurisdiction and its economic performance. Third, we evaluate tax policy. Fourth, we evaluate Ontario's performance in balancing its books and managing its debts.

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There is an urgent need to redefine and reorganize the way that aviation security operations are conducted in Canada. This need has been clearly stated by the recent report of the Senate Committee for National Security and Defence.

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The papers in this book draw on insights about the nature and effects of taxation that were developed since Canada's last major tax reform and incorporates empirical information about the incentive effects of taxes on work, investment, and risk taking.

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