Well, it sounds somewhat like a rhetorical question, but thank you for acknowledging that work.
We do a report card on Canada's performance called “How Canada Performs”. It's entirely on our website. We did look at inequality in the major OECD countries over the last 20 years.
As part of globalization, sadly, inequality is growing in most countries around the world. In Canada the rate of growth of inequality as we measured it was actually greater than in the United States, which is a bit of a surprising result. We didn't do detailed analysis on the economic impacts of that, but I think we're starting to highlight them. They are things like how, if people with lower incomes aren't keeping pace with income growth across the economy, that takes away from potential demand in your economy. Often they're buying locally made goods. They're not importing BMWs, although there's nothing wrong with BMWs.
We were asking whether we're doing enough as a country to ensure that all Canadians are benefiting from economic growth. Whether we're talking about the lack of job security or about people retiring with insufficient incomes, ongoing poverty is kind of a festering sore within an economy, and I think it does drag down your ongoing growth potential.
It's something we're going to come back to in further research, because we didn't really go deeply into the causes, but I'd like to do that in our future research.