We Need to be a Country of Business with CIBC's Lisa Raitt

from Toronto Talks · host Jason Chapman

Canada is not a country of business. Not at the moment. On the latest episode of Toronto Talks, Giles Gherson speaks with Lisa Raitt, Vice-Chair in the Office of the CEO at CIBC, about why Toronto's productivity gap with ten major US metros has grown to nearly $100,000 per worker, what's driving the outflow of talent and capital, and what it will actually take to start thinking and acting like a country of business.

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Canada is not a country of business and a nearly $100,000 productivity gap with the U.S. shows it.

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