Saturday, November 7, 2015

Canada Ranks First In World For Personal Freedom And Social Tolerance


By Michael Walsh, Nov 03, 2015 Yahoo

O Canada: you might be the land of the free now.

A new study reveals that the United States’ neighbor to the north has the “freest country in the world,” with the greatest tolerance for immigrants worldwide.

Canada’s ranking as the top nation in the world for personal freedom can be found in the Legatum Institute’s 2015 Prosperity Index. The London-based international public policy think tank released its findings Monday.

Typically, a country’s prosperity has been based on its material wealth, but at the Legatum Institute, this data is studied along with quality-of-life metrics.

“By combining those two types of data, the objective and the subjective, we really get a more complete picture of prosperity around the world,” Nathan Gamester, program director for the Prosperity Index, said in an interview with Yahoo News.

 
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