GDP growth

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Media fuels Morneau’s state of denial

The economy grew at 0.9 per cent in the second quarter, not 3.7 per cent.


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Employment growth has been lopsided, with the GTA and adjacent areas reaping most of the benefits.


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The province’s portion of national GDP growth eclipsed 42 per cent in both 2006 and 2012.


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From 2010 to 2014, Canada’s resource-intensive provinces' per person GDP growth more than doubled growth in non-resource intensive provinces.

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In the 1990s and early 2000s, Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Finance Minister Paul Martin cut federal government spending as a per cent of GDP and raised the employment insurance threshold to between 12 and 20 weeks.