Mr. Mostafa Askari at the Finance Committee

On April 29th, 2014. See this statement in context.

April 29th, 2014 / 6 p.m.

Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Economic and Fiscal Analysis, Library of Parliament

I'm glad you asked for a clarification. I think what I said was not that the exports do not make any contribution to the Canadian economy, but that exports did not make any contribution to growth in GDP since 2000. That's a completely different issue.

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