Canadian productivity stagnant

JLM

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I just heard on C.B.C. news that Canadian productivity is stagnant, in fact 25% behind that of the U.S. , which is in dire danger of lowering our standard of living. Shouldn't we be firing these drones that aren't producing? What role does the Unions have in this?
 

Cliffy

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Fire all politician and bureaucrats? The world is run by good for nothing, self aggrandizing, greedy schmucks who don't care about anything but the bottom line. BP and Haliburton come to mind. How do you motivate people who are bombarded daily with shyte about our political leaders who are too busy lining their pockets and partying at our expense. The problem is sytemic. It is about far more than production and individual workers. Workers by natire follow the leaders. Blame them.
 

JLM

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Fire all politician and bureaucrats? The world is run by good for nothing, self aggrandizing, greedy schmucks who don't care about anything but the bottom line. BP and Haliburton come to mind. How do you motivate people who are bombarded daily with shyte about our political leaders who are too busy lining their pockets and partying at our expense. The problem is sytemic. It is about far more than production and individual workers. Workers by natire follow the leaders. Blame them.

That's a start but I think it's just a catch 22 situation- fire the politicians and bureaucrats and you are just going to get another bunch of the same, as they are not really the people who run the world. Their corruption probably pales when compared to the likes of Donald Trump.
 

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As someone said this morning on CBC, our productivity might be lower than the US, but our unemployment rate is also lower. Overall, it's probably a wash.
 

Said1

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I read it's 30%, not 25% - in comparison to something outrageous like 9% in the early 80's. Still better than the 40's. I'm talking about industrial productivity and natural resources, not overall productivity. We all know industrial and resource base economies are blase in such advanced nations as ours anyway, so naturally, this shouldn't be surprising. Scary, but not shocking.