Stop looking abroad for investment success, there is opportunity here at home

If we want to improve productivity in Canada, we should be investing in our own businesses and essential community infrastructures to support them.

Filomena Tassi is the minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. The agency offers streamlined, direct-to-business and community placemaking support to help attract visitors and locals to main streets, write Mary W. Rowe and Zita Cobb.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARY W. ROWE, ZITA COBB

April 24, 2024

Much debate continues to greet the latest statistics indicating Canada’s productivity—measured as economic output generated per hour of work—has continued to decline, dramatically lagging other G7 countries. What began as a rant by pundits has now shifted to a steady l...

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