Canada is at a tipping point on productivity

It’s one thing for the budget to proclaim, as it does, that 'as the global economy changes, Canada has everything we need to thrive' and quite another thing to make it happen.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured April 7, 2022, at a press conference in Ottawa on budget day. Contrary to what Freeland is saying, a really smart politician would engage with all Canadians on how we build a more successful economy and society. And that means talking much more about productivity, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 11, 2022

TORONTO—When will our politicians smarten up? There was Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, we are told, telling reporters after her budget speech that “talking about productivity is not something a smart politician does.” It is too boring, she suggested, a rather dismissive attitude about the...

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