Competing Against America: Why Canada Has Fallen Behind in the Race for Talent and Wealth (and What to Do about It)

By Michael Alexander

A passionate call to make Canada the best place to live in the 21st century. Excessive taxes, massive bureaucracy and dysfunctional economic policies have resulted in rapidly falling productivity rates and declining standards of living for millions of Canadians. This alarming growth of the productivity gap has placed Canada at a serious disadvantage on many fronts. Talented Canadians are forced to seek better professional opportunities in the United States to avoid punitive taxation, thus further contributing to the ever-widening productivity gap between the two countries. The Chretien-era low-dollar policy prevented Canadian businesses from investing in technologies that would make them more competitive and productive. The unintended outcome of this policy created circumstances that made Canadian businesses rely on cheap labor resulting from the record-low dollar instead of innovative technologies designed for export. Competing Against America shows Canadians why we have been economically lagging behind the United States since the 1980s and what to do about it. we have become a self-defeating nation when it comes to creating social and business practices that might look impressive as a liberal social agenda but cripple us in the economic marketplace. The author suggests we take the best American practices, blend them with our own unique traditions, and create a nation that achieves superior performance; that is, a society that truly combines justice and prosperity. Competing Against America will be required reading for all Canadians seeking to make Canada the most socially and economically prosperous country in the world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470835125
• ISBN13: 9780470835128
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"