Donald Trump’s bombastic style is hard to stomach, but the need to undo years of waste and corruption is undeniable. Trump’s reforms will speed up an economy that already far outperforms ours. According to the latest IMF World Economic Outlook data, U.S. GDP per capita this year is $89,678 (in “purchasing-power-parity” dollars), while ours is $64,566, just 72 per cent of that. In 2015, when the Trudeau government was elected, our per capita output was 81 per cent of the Americans’. According to the IMF’s forecasts, we’ll be below 70 per cent and still trending downward by 2029.
