Canada's Looking Better and Better

It's stereotypical of various breeds of dirty hippies and other lefties to threaten to move to Canada. But now I'm starting to consider it myself.

As someone who greatly values economic freedom, Canada's allegedly socialistic policies have always been a turn-off for me. But now the Cato Institute's global economic freedom rankings place Canada above the US for the first time.

Check out this graph of the world's freest economies according to Cato:



See, a country need not sacrifice good economic policy in order to have more reasonable social and drug policies. So, as a young gay man who might actually want to get married someday (and would appreciate that marriage being valid wherever I go in the country), I have to say that Canada is looking better and better.

(Via Will Wilkinson.)