No greater threat to the Canadian dream today than our misguided complacency

Statistics Canada's recent data shows that productivity in the business sector fell in the second quarter, marking the fifth successive quarter in which our productivity fell.

The Canadian business sector output gap with the U.S. has been falling steadily since the mid-1980s: from 92 per cent of the U.S. level then to just more than 75 per cent now. Our productivity level is one of the lowest among advanced economies, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

September 7, 2023

TORONTO—In a recent edition of Britain’s Financial Times, a columnist asked what had happened to Canada. “The country’s geography suggests it could be a powerhouse, but few talk about it in such terms,” columnist Tej Parikh wrote. “Canada rarel...

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