This is the new Cato/Fraser Economic Freedom Index (h/t Alison Kemper). Wil Wilkinson comments:
[T]he frosty land of toques and chesterfields has leap-frogged the U.S. to take 7th place, completely humiliating the tied-for-8th place land of the ever-less-free, home of the brave. Is it now possible to even half-credibly make the case that the United States, in the age of warrantless wiretaps and the shoeless airport security line, is a freer country than Canada? I doubt it. Read it and weep, fair weather laissez faire yanks.