Mr. Speaker, I am quite disappointed in the Conservative member opposite. He should know what the definition of a recession is. We have not even had a single quarter of negative growth. In fact, Statistics Canada just revised our growth numbers upward for the last three years.
The Conservatives would like to quote former governors of the Bank of Canada. I have got one. David Dodge said, “because [the Conservative Party] was obsessively focused on reducing the federal deficit [between 2011 and 2015], the Harper government unnecessarily contributed to a slower, rather more muted recovery”.
This Liberal government has ensured a very strong recovery, the strongest in the G7.