Since 2015, per-person GDP in Canada has grown by only 1.9 per cent.
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In Nova Scotia, government spending as a share of the economy averaged more than 60 per cent from 2007 and 2019.
Over the past eight years, Canada's growth in real GDP per person is a paltry 1.6 per cent versus 14.7 per cent in the United States.
Federal gross debt will reach a projected $2.4 trillion by 2027-28.
Between 2014 and 2022, business investment in plants, machinery, equipment and new technologies declined by 1.2 per cent annually on average.
From 2015 to 2022, Canada’s population increased by 3.3 million compared to only 1.6 million housing completions.
The province spent $171 million on business subsidies in 2019.
Business investment provides workers with the tools and new technologies to produce more and better goods and services.