General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
In February 1991 the Bank of Canada and the federal Department of Finance jointly announced an inflation-targeting regime — initially a transition to a 2% mid-point of a 1-3% band by 1995 — becoming the second major central bank after New Zealand to adopt explicit numerical targets. The framework is renewed on a five-year cycle with the federal government and has anchored Bank of Canada operating procedure ever since, alongside floating exchange rate and fiscal-rule discipline under successive Conservative and Liberal governments.
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.