Linda Hasenfratz, chairman and chief executive officer of Linamar Corporation, speaks during the International Economic Forum Of The Americas (IEFA) Conference of Montreal in Montreal on July 13, 2022. Photo by Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg

Linda Hasenfratz, executive chair of Linamar Corp. , took aim at those in Ottawa who criticize Canada’s productivity, telling a Toronto audience Monday that it is the public sector’s flat record that over the past 25 years that is pulling productivity down.

“The business sector (has) grown productivity about 50 per cent since roughly 2000 (but) the non business sector — this is government and not-for-profit businesses and workers — in those areas … productivity has been absolutely flat, zero growth, not one bit of productivity,” she said at the Univ

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