“I want to blame the government because economic numbers are bad. I think if we voted out the government and passed my preferred policies instead, the economy would be better.”
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MP Todd Doherty noted that Canada is the only G7 country currently in a recession, with two consecutive quarters of negative growth according to the latest StatsCan data. He called this 'deeply troubling news' for Canadians.