Canada needs its own productivity commission

We need to build a new economy where innovation and productivity make real increases in per capita well-being in income and wealth generation to address the demands of health care, achieving net-zero emissions, education, and more defence spending.

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, pictured in Ottawa on May 4, 2023, is an unlikely future prime minister, writes David Crane, but has the disciplined mind and broad experience needed to set a far-reaching research agenda and impose high standards for analysis. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

February 22, 2024

TORONTO—Canada has been increasing the size of its economy by bringing in many people from other countries, not by increasing our capacity for innovation, productivity, and wealth creation. This has created the illusion of growth. Many of these new arrivals have been cruci...

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