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.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Taxation of capital income (dividends, capital gains, inheritance, wealth). Distinct from corporate rate.
Budget 2021 announced a C$30 billion / 5-year federal commitment to a Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system, with bilateral agreements signed in 2021–2022 with all ten provinces and three territories. The objective is to halve average parental fees in regulated child care by end of 2022 and reach an average of C$10/day by 2026. The federal Canada Child Care Act (2024) legislated principles of affordability, accessibility, and inclusivity to make the framework durable.
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.