«In this role I talk to leading politicians and cabinet ministers, I talk to university presidents, and they are all keenly aware that we have
a productivity issue in this country,» Porter said following the meeting.
To further contextualize Canada's serious
issue with its
productivity growth, a report put out by the Council of Canadian Academies states that since 1984, the relative labour
productivity in the Canadian business sector dropped from more than 90 % of the US level to 76 %
in 2007, putting the
country 15th out of 18 comparative Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
countries.