Canada’s economic productivity crisis can only be solved if the federal and provincial governments come together to address issues like major project approvals and inter-provincial trade barriers, Alberta’s premier said Wednesday.
Danielle Smith made the remarks in Calgary at a national conference on productivity, a term which describes how much an economy produces per hour worked.
Canada’s lagging productivity record has been in the spotlight in recent months. Earlier this year, senior deputy Bank of Canada governor Carolyn Rogers called it an “emergency,” saying that in 2022, Canadian productivity was 71 percent of that of the U.S. and that Canada lags behind its G7 peers….