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 1995 Program Review, led by the Chrétien-Martin Liberal government and announced in the February 1995 Budget, applied six tests (public interest, role of government, federalism, partnership, efficiency, affordability) across all federal departments to identify spending reductions of roughly 19% over three years. Implemented through Treasury Board guidelines and successive Estimates, it cut transfers to provinces, defence, and program spending. The intended effect was to stabilise federal debt-to-GDP and restore fiscal credibility after the early-1990s deficit crisis.
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.