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.
The 1997 CPP reform under the Chretien Liberal government and federal-provincial CPP stewards raised combined contribution rates from 6% to 9.9% over six years, established the CPP Investment Board (CPPIB) to manage assets at arm's length from government in diversified securities, and shifted the plan from pure pay-as-you-go toward partial pre-funding. The reform was a centerpiece of the era's broader fiscal consolidation, securing CPP solvency on a 75-year horizon without benefit cuts.
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.