Canada’s lost economic decade is the election focus so far—and that’s a good thing (The Hub)

Two days into the campaign and a single phrase has come to define the Conservative case against the Liberals’ re-election: the lost decade.

It seeks to convey Canada’s poor economic and social outcomes over the past decade of Liberal governance. The most notable expression is Canada’s declining GDP per capita, which has fallen for eight of the past 11 quarters.

The result, as the chart below shows, is that over the last decade, Canada has experienced the second-lowest GDP per capita growth in the OECD at 1.7 percent. The U.S. by contrast has seen growth of 18.2 percent over the same period ...

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