General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
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.
Finance Minister Paul Martin's Budget of 27 February 1995. Programme spending cut 19% real over three years; federal public service reduced by ~45,000 FTE (~14%); major departmental restructuring (Canadian International Development Agency, Transport, Defence); announced Canada Health and Social Transfer consolidating Established Programs Financing and Canada Assistance Plan. Federal deficit 5.3% GDP (FY1994-95) → surplus FY1997-98, earliest G7 balanced budget. Catalyst: January 1995 Wall Street Journal editorial calling Canada "an honorary member of the Third World" and peso-like bond-market sentiment.
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.