Alberta freest province, but ranks 30th among all North American states and provinces, while other provinces in bottom half of ranking

VANCOUVER—Alberta is, once again, the Canadian province with the highest level of economic freedom but ranks 30^th overall amongst all North American (U.S. and Mexican) states and Canadian provinces, and the remaining provinces all rank in the bottom half in the annual Economic Freedom of North America report, published today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan, public policy think-tank.

People have more economic freedom when they are allowed to make more of their own economic decisions--about what to buy, where and how to work and how to start and run businesses. Hundreds of academic papers find that economic freedom is fundamental to prosperity and well-being.