A conservative Canadian think tank ranked Canada as the twelfth “freest” country in the world based on a global index that measures human freedoms, while claiming that freedom has declined for the vast majority of the world’s population in recent years.
The Fraser Institute, jointly with the U.S.-based Cato Institute, released its annual Human Freedom Index on Tuesday, which found that nearly 90 per cent of people across the world had less freedom in 2023 – the latest year for which data was available – than they did in 2019.
