We've also heard that in terms of growth rates, in spite of a lot of policies that were certainly almost explicitly in some cases directed at improving our productivity—for example, free trade, low inflation, even fiscal restraint—we certainly haven't seen a pickup, if you like, in Canada's performance relative to that of the United States.
Pour ce qui est des taux de croissance, en dépit de maintes politiques, qui visaient presque explicitement dans certains cas l'amélioration de notre productivité—par exemple, le libre-échange, la lutte contre l'inflation, même les coupures budgétaires—nous n'avons certainement pas vu d'amélioration de la performance canadienne relativement à celle des États-Unis.