LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Canada should address its lagging GDP

To the editor,
The U.S. vice-president recently raised an issue that Canadians should be taking seriously. He highlighted data from a Halifax-based firm that shows Canada’s GDP per capita has been declining since 2015 relative to the U.S. and the U.K. GDP per capita is not a perfect metric for economic well-being, but it is a measure of a country’s economic wealth. Governments like it, because it is a measure of the ability of the economy to pay taxes and support things like health c