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 Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA), signed in October 1987 by Mulroney and Reagan and entered into force on 1 January 1989, eliminated tariffs on most bilateral trade over a ten-year phase-in, established a Chapter 19 binational dispute-settlement panel, and addressed services and investment rules. Politically validated by the 1988 federal election ("free-trade election"), CUSFTA became the template for NAFTA in 1994 and was the foundational policy of Canada's late-20th-century market-liberal turn.
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.