Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Anderson, I want to continue our conversation on the economy.
We have a serious per-capita growth problem in this country. In 2021, the OECD projected that our economy would perform worse this decade than all other member countries, with a per-capita real GDP growth of only 0.7% annually.
Now we have a government that, after eight long years, has doubled our national debt. The national debt in 2015 was $625 billion. Today it's over $1.2 trillion. It has called those things “investments”. In my mind, when you make an investment, there should be a return on that investment. It seems to me that the management of the economy has been nothing short of economic malpractice, but I'm wondering if you could comment on the real problems that are caused when the GDP per capita falls below 1%.