In any one year—and I don't have the whole time series in front of me—certainly U.S. productivity growth.... If you go back in time, both Canada and the United States had a pretty good pickup in productivity growth in the second half of the 1990s. The difference really is that, in Canada, it kind of petered out in the early 2000s, and it's been pretty weak ever since. In the U.S., it just kept going.
In any one year, that doesn't make a huge difference, but when you accumulate a significant difference in productivity growth each year over 20 years, you get the kinds of numbers Mr. Hallan mentioned at the beginning. Yes, the average income in the United States is well above the average income in Canada, and that is productivity growth.