Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government …

persistent mythologies which in his estimation have served to insulate government from effective criticism and prevented the … income security system. He concludes that on the whole the emerging post-welfare state will better serve Canada's evolving … state, which in his estimation never worked all that well. …