Opportunity in the turmoil : Report on Canada 2009

The mandate of the Task Force, announced in the April 2001 Speech from the Throne, is to measure and monitor Ontario’s competitiveness, productivity, and economic progress compared to other provinces and US states and to report to the public on a regular basis. [...] Over the past year, the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity and the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management collaborated to measure the creativity content of our clustered industries. [...] Consistent with the Competition Policy Review Panel, the Institute continues to advocate for more intense competitive pressure through the workings of markets to realize the benefits of more innovation and higher productivity, which in turn raise our economic performance and prosperity for this and future generations. [...] In the fourth quarter of working age and therefore able to 2008, real GDP in the United States contribute to the creation of products decreased at an annual rate of 6.3 and services that add economic value percent versus the previous quarter, and prosperity? [...] Over the past We need to improve the wages and Canada’s own Four Seasons has done twenty-five years, the creativity-oriented working conditions of those who work in so in bringing guest service to new, world occupations have increased from 24 the routine-oriented jobs that are the beating levels, thanks to empowered percent of the country’s work force to 29 lifeblood of that infrastructure.