Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Canada’s productivity disaster: ‘How could this happen?


Canada ranks near the bottom of the OECD on productivity. Capital stock per worker lags far behind the most productive countries.

Jim Csek and Iain Burns dig into the hard numbers and the policy choices behind them:
• Decades of weak productivity growth
• High immigration reducing the incentive to invest in machinery and technology
• Anti-energy policies that make Canada’s biggest economic strengths harder to develop
• Growing competitive pressure from Venezuelan heavy crude on U.S. Gulf Coast refineries
• The ongoing failure to get more Canadian oil to market
A resource-rich country with one of the weakest productivity records in the developed world.


How did we get here?


Full discussion here.
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