Posted AT 7:20 PM EDT on 02/05/08
It's time productivity came out of the closet
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde's line about homosexuality, productivity in Canada is a term that dares not speak its name.
Newspaper publishers hate it, because the subject is too dull. Television despises it, because the subject is too complicated. Governments flee from it, because the mere mention of the word provokes fear and loathing.
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien, for example, banned the word.
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