I would say that everything about this recession has been very different from past recessions. First of all is its incredible severity and its suddenness. It's a fact that basically almost every country in the world went into recession on almost the same day.
The recovery has also been the strongest on record by far. To some extent, that reflects the fact that part of the cause of this recession was that truly exceptional public health measures needed to be taken that literally closed parts of the economy. When those were reopened, the economy bounced back very quickly.
The other element is the exceptional stimulus that has been provided here in Canada and in many other countries around the world. Faced with an economic catastrophe, many governments have deployed exceptional policies, and they've worked.