Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 971 - Canada’s Productivity and Competitiveness with Robert Gagné

Brian interviews Robert Gagné. Robert talks about Canada’s Productivity and Competitiveness and recent articles and papers he has written. He is a full professor at HEC Montréal and director of the Centre on Productivity and Prosperity. “The causes of the low productivity of Canadian companies are well known and documented: they invest little, spend less on research and development, and have a low propensity to innovate. These behaviours tend to limit their productivity gains and, consequently, restrict the growth of the Canadian economy. There is an urgent need to act because the consequences of inaction are enormous.”Brian closes the show with his six-point plan for Canadian competitiveness.