Thank you, Chair.
I'd like to thank all our guests for attending today.
I'm going to let you do more of the talking than me, which might feel rare.
I'd like to start with Ms. Burr.
Right out of the gate, you spoke in terms of the competitiveness challenge, and what struck me is that it says Canada's productivity is lower than that of our major competitors, particularly the United States. You go on to show with a couple of your charts that annual percentage labour productivity in the Canadian business sector over the last 60 years has steadily been declining, and compared to the United States, our productivity level is something like three-quarters of what it is in the United States.
Should we be concerned?