An example of a general economic measure would be the support programs for research and development. We will always need these types of programs. We are strongly urging the government to continue its efforts in this area and implement programs to promote research and development.
As for productivity, this is an extremely complex issue and one that is difficult to resolve. Even the economists do not all agree about the exact causes. We know that we have an aging population and that labour is becoming increasingly rare. One theory based on these factors purports that companies sometimes prefer to keep a certain pool of employees for fear that they will not have enough appropriate human resources. Maintaining these employees has an impact on productivity.
So we have to encourage companies, those in the natural resource sector among others, to increase production and investment. The Governor of the Bank of Canada has mentioned several times that companies are sitting on significant amounts of cash. Investing more would have an impact on this productivity.