Philip Lawrence at the Finance Committee

February 18th, 2021 / 4:35 p.m.

Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

I can tell you that we have higher unemployment than the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the United States and many other developed countries. That's despite very high levels of expenditure. I note that we've been provided the chart of debt to GDP, but also important is deficit to GDP, where you would see our ranking as among [Technical difficulty—Editor] developed countries in our expenditures.

Is it fair to say that we have spent the most and gotten the least in the G7?

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