Our Incomes Are Falling Behind: Earnings in the Canadian Provinces and U.S. States, 2010-2022 finds that the median employment earnings—wages, salaries and self-employment income—of workers were lower in every Canadian province than in every state in the United States.

A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Performance of Canada and Its OECD Competitors, 2007-2019 finds that over the last business cycle (2007 to 2019), and long before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Canada was already underperforming other advanced countries on important investment, employment and productivity measures that are key to higher living standards.

Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States Over the Past Five Decades is a new study that finds weak business investment in technologies that increase worker productivity over the past decade is stifling Canada’s economic growth and suppressing improvements in Canadian living standards when compared to other OECD countries—especially the United States, which has only grown in these areas.