The politics of addressing Canada's productivity crisis

The federal government revealed billions of dollars in new spending in Budget 2024, including funding to boost productivity, which is in serious trouble in Canada.
Canada’s productivity rate has dropped for the last 13 quarters, a trend that spells bad news for both the country’s economy and wage growth.
Abigail Bimman explains how Ottawa plans to address the problem and why the measure could backfire.
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[@ThinkPolisComing4Me]

it’s an immigration problem.

[@05350]

Who are going to vote Trudeau and Freeland if there are no immigrants?

[@FranklinFleming-lm1yu]

The bar is low... And also censorship it high leave this platform it's made it's self redundant

[@TarifHuda]

And they hardly do anything about it

[@firstandforemost87]

None of them will. Only one party wants to, and nobody knows where they are.

[@gormenfreeman499]

We should allow only immigrants who are wealthy and can pay for a house right away with cash earned outside of Canada. And much much less bringing average skilled immigrants here who have nothing and have to compete with everyone else trying get something out of this economy from scratch. We don’t need more average poor people who are fighting it out, we have too many now.

[@patrickcowan8701]

Housing shortage. Must import millions to fix problem. Meanwhile invest in un employing all of them. Cant fix stupid.

[@firstandforemost87]

Sounds like a recipe for UBI!

[@worstknightmayor4439]

​@@firstandforemost87yup , nobody will want to work.

[@bobowon5450]

in almost every business i've worked for, if you work "smarter" you get fired because you're taking "the easy way out" despite getting more work done. Business owners need to start changing their outlook on what they need their labor to do.

[@winstonsmith935]

Where are your skilled workers. When your productivity falls below 60% you are compared to third world countries labour markets for productivity.

[@mattb287]

The tax system in the country discourages hard work and productivity.

[@chetanshah946]

Increasing the tax is the easiest and most incompetent way to run the country.

[@user-kv4kp4co1r]

Productivity! What is it? Let's sell houses to each other.

[@ianhowes8141]

Increase productivity by getting rid of unions and hiring people who want to work for a living rather than just have a job!

[@EyeSee4.8]

Only one way to get ahead in Canada. Dont be productive. The tax structure now makes working a 40h week the same as welfare. Plus you get more back in Carbon tax by not working.

[@ajtec29]

Clueless budget!

[@drquinnmedicinewoman7786]

good grief! who is blocking all the comment section and why?

[@robertlaurie7056]

FJT

[@Stevejoesofficial]

Canada is done .

[@shoobydoobiemauiwowee]

There are so many people who aren't working that could be making great contributions to our country if there wasn't so much bureaucracy holding them back.

[@dslboiz]

If will be invested in WE charity

[@nicholasfooong.]

The issue with canada can be found in my pfp

[@xmusicmanx1]

😂

[@whitekuk4679]

So I can assume the 4 day work weeks isn't going to happen is it?

[@canadaclub8920]

Invest in people.

[@sasquatch5712]

Hardcore fakenews. Our peoductivity is down from the million unskilled workers allowed in our country

[@theguy.datno1expects]

Sativa.. im telling you

[@theguy.datno1expects]

I know the answer... sativa

[@johnstonj92]

Yes so let's increase tax to for business owners to pay when make business less desirable in an already inflated country. Also at the same time let's make a.i. driven robots to take good paying jobs that are high in demand to help build homes that nobody can pay for because there job was taken by a.i. . Lol smart oh and on top of that let's bring tons of ppl in to our country when we don't have enough quote on quote good paying jobs that can afford houses that don't exist. ❤I just love canada.