You don't understand what productivity refers to. It refers to development of technology to industry, not having an economy tied to bullshit government jobs that produce nothing but paper. No one in Ottawa is "productive", it's all bloated overhead.
Like it or not, Canada is a resources based economy. We consistently fail at development of new technologies, i.e. Nortel, RIM/Blackberry. RIM should be as big as Apple but they blew it.