Improving Canada's Poor Productivity Will Take More Than Just a Few Tweaks

摘要

There was sad news out of London, Ontario recently, as heavy equipment maker Caterpillar announced it was closing its local plant. Now unemployed, its 450 former workers have become part of one of Canada's most depressing economic statistics: since 2002, our country has lost more than 630,000 manufacturing positions - a quarter of the sector's workforce.