{"id":3999,"date":"2025-05-22T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:02:17","slug":"productivity-the-key-to-a-strong-resilient-domestic-market-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/productivity-the-key-to-a-strong-resilient-domestic-market-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity: the key to a strong, resilient domestic market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Montreal, May 22, 2025<\/strong> \u2013 Faced with the renewed surge in American protectionism, the Centre for Productivity and Prosperity \u2013 Walter J. Somers Foundation (CPP) has now published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/PP-2025-02_ANG.pdf\"><em>Productivity: the key to a strong, resilient domestic market<\/em><\/a>. Its main finding is categorical: Canada\u2019s structural productivity deficit is drastically limiting its room to manoeuvre in efforts to counter American tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it was unable to make corrections 15 years ago, when the warning signs were flashing, Canada is now exposed to mounting American protectionism, since its sizeable structural productivity deficit limits its opportunities to develop new markets, both internationally and domestically,\u201d says Robert Gagn\u00e9, CPP Director and co-author of the study. \u201cAnd regardless of what we hear, tearing down barriers to interprovincial trade will not be enough to offset the impact of threatened US tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Communique_PP-2025-02_ANG.pdf\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Read press release<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-room","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}