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Business investment key to addressing Canada’s productivity crisis

Canada’s GDP per hour worked—a key measure of productivity growth—is among the lowest in the OECD.


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Federal budget fails to ‘break the glass’ on Canada’s economic growth crisis

Per-person GDP, a common indicator of living standards, now sits below where it was at the end of 2014.


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Federal government helped spark Canada’s economic growth crisis

Over the last nine years, Canadian living standards have not increased.


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Federal government clearly misstates its economic record

Since 2015 Canada has posted some of the weakest economic growth numbers in half a century.


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Federal government’s upcoming budget must address ‘growth deficit’

Between 2016 and 2019, the Trudeau government recorded average economic growth of 2.1 per cent compared to 4.6 per cent during the Chrétien years.


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Federal government’s ‘consultation’ thinly-veiled prescription for more spending

Due to Liberal government reforms in the 1990s, per-person program spending dropped by 15.5 per cent.