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As Canada stares down economic uncertainty and various threats to our prosperity, a new National Post analysis reveals that our starting position is much weaker than it otherwise could have been. In his new piece, The 13 Charts That Prove the Lost Liberal Decade, deputy comment editor Jesse Kline lays out the data that reveals stagnant per capita GDP growth, declining living standards, an affordability crisis, expanding government and an erosion in social cohesion.
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In this conversation with Rob Breakenridge, Kline discusses the missed opportunities and policy failures that put Canada in this position, and what it might take to turn things around.
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Editor’s note: This video was produced before the fiscal update. The deficit prediction has changed from $78.3 billion to $66.9 billion.
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