Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Budget Implementation Act 1995 created the Canada Health and Social Transfer effective 1 April 1996. Consolidated Established Programs Financing (health, post-secondary) and Canada Assistance Plan (social assistance, 50/50 cost-share). Single block grant with fewer conditions; removed CAP's 50/50 matching for social assistance. Cash-component floor decoupled from provincial spending. Cut federal cash transfer by ~$7B/year versus pre-reform programs.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.