I do appreciate that, and I would love to get to some of what underlies that, but first we need to sort of put where the baseline is.
To answer that question, Canada has had the worst income drop in the G7 over the last five years. The U.S. is at an 8% increase. Italy is at about 7%. Japan is a little shy of 4%. Then we have France and the U.K. Germany is slightly negative, and Canada is an outlier at negative 2%.
GDP per capita has a real impact on people. In fact, that's how most economists measure economic well-being. We've also had seven quarters now in which Canada's GDP per capita has been shrinking. If in fact we measured GDP on a per capita basis, we would be in one of our longest recessions. Since the Liberals formed government, our GDP per capita, our economic growth, has not grown a bit, not in the last 10 years. We are in a serious economic crisis, and it's troubling to me, Minister, that you won't answer basic questions.