OPINION

BY IAN PATTISON

TIRED of Waiting, the great Trews song from 2003 (and the Kinks 38 years earlier), about sums up the feeling among Canada’s prime minister, premiers, mayors and most citizens when it comes to economic progress in this country. We’ve dawdled along to the point where productivity has sunk to record lows as investors lose interest in a place with immense potential but where little happens without years of needless delay.

(Which is not to say that prudent delay is a bad thing, only that interminable delay saps momentum.)

Heading into a meeting with the premiers this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney repeated his intention to “build baby, build” the “strongest economy in the G7.”

Carney’s message as reported in The Logic: The government “must spend aggressively to bu

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