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.
Canada's accession to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), implemented from 1 January 1994 under the NAFTA Implementation Act 1993, extended the 1989 Canada-US FTA into a trilateral pact with Mexico. It eliminated most tariffs and codified rules of origin, dispute settlement and investor protections (Chapter 11). The intended effect was to deepen integration with the United States, expand market access, and lock in market-oriented reforms; the agreement was succeeded by CUSMA in 2020.
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.