Good observations Sir.  A few of my own below:
- productivity will come at the expense of jobs generally speaking; we can't have both
- there is no policy framework for industry in Canada; unlike most of the G7; {this creates flip flops in direction; example the accelerated CCA (to help investment in capital equipment) is not permanently ensconced in policy}
- the governments attack on SME owner operators is troubling to say the least; they're anti-business bias makes me wonder what is coming next.....and here I mean after the current horror show that they sprung on the SME community.

Setting out a commitment to industry and a policy framework is overdue in this country.  To do so isn't sexy, probably doesn't garner publicity or many votes.  But it is what civil servants who genuinely care, elected and bureaucrats both, should be doing.

It takes a certain humility to do the work & avoid the limelight.  I don't think we have that leadership in JT & Morneau or G 'Bannon' Butts.