In their 2011 Index of Economic Freedom, the Heritage Foundation designated Canada’s economy as “free,” while the United States embarrassingly slipped down into its list of “mostly free” economies.
Canada was ranked in 6th place just behind other “free” economies like Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland, while the U.S. was ranked in 9th place, sharing company with “mostly free” economies like Uruguay in 33rd place.
[…] 3. The conservative Heritage Foundation labels Canada’s economy free and the United States as only mostly free […]
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