distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

particularly important measurement problems, namely the estimation of real output in the non-market sector where output is not … measured independently of inputs and the estimation of price indices (which are needed to calculate real output) for products …; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing …