Is Canada’s labour-intensive economic strategy working?

David Williams is vice-president of policy at the Business Council of British Columbia.

Jock Finlayson is the council’s executive vice-president and chief policy officer.

Economic growth in Canada is expected to slip to 1.3 per cent in 2019, according to the Bank of Canada’s latest monetary policy report. That it is positive at all owes to a surging population. Canada’s population typically increases by around 1 per cent each year. It is currently growing at 1.4 per cent, the fastest pace in a generation.When a rising population rather than innovation, business dynamism or higher productivity drives the growth […]

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