Chrystia Freeland on Business of Supply

In the House of Commons on May 29th, 2023. See this statement in context.

Department of Finance—Main Estimates, 2023-24Business of SupplyGovernment Orders

May 29th, 2023 / 9:05 p.m.

Liberal

Chrystia Freeland Liberal University—Rosedale, ON

Mr. Chair, the Harper government did have low growth. It had a remarkably lacklustre recovery from the 2008 recession. It took four months longer for GDP to recover from the 2008 recession than our recovery took from the COVID recession. It took 27 months for jobs to recover from the 2008 recession, but only 21 months after the much deeper COVID recession, and it was a shocking 110 months for the unemployment rate to—

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