Marty Morantz at the Finance Committee

On May 18th, 2023. See this statement in context.

May 18th, 2023 / 12:05 p.m.

Conservative

Marty Morantz Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, MB

Thank you very much.

Now, Mr. Gray, your CEO, Mr. Beatty, has made a number of comments about this budget. They're mainly around productivity, and you alluded to productivity in your opening statement.

Budget 2022 acknowledges this problem, as you mentioned. In fact, the finance minister, in her opening statement, called this problem “Canada's Achilles heel”.

Now, we have a government that was brought to power in 2015. This is 2023. Canada is dead last in the OECD for productivity. This is a very serious problem, and unfortunately we don't have a government that's serious about solving it.

What do you think this government should do to solve it?

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