Deloitte: Productivity Performance

Canada Dept: The report The Future of Productivity: Clear choices for a competitive Canada makes it clear that Canadian companies need to be bolder when it comes to investing in productivity-boosting measures and seeking out growth, both within Canada and internationally, according to Winnipeg Free Press. In fact, "the real drag on our competitiveness is the inability of Canadian companies to sustain growth over the longer term," Deloitte said and tORONTO - Failure by business to invest in growth is a major factor hampering productivity in Canada and the ability to compete internationally, according to a new report by the Canadian arm of professional services consultant Deloitte. Among other things, it challenges what it called "decades of speculation that size and sector composition restricts Canada's productivity performance." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.