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With Canada possibly slipping into another recession, a new comprehensive review of the economic record of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government paints a damning portrait of nearly a decade of economic failure.

“Rhetoric and Reality: Evaluating Canada’s Economic Record Under the Harper Government,” authored by Unifor Economists Jim Stanford and Jordan Brennan, tracks the performance of nine federal governments from 1946 through 2014.

“Canada’s economy has never performed worse, since the end of World War II, than under the present Conservative government. The Harper government ranks last among the nine post-ward governments, and by a wide margin – falling well behind the second worst government, which was the Mulroney government of 1984-93.”

The report also shows that the poor economic results of the Stephen Harper Conservative government cannot be blamed on the 2008-09 recession – Canada experienced a total of 10 recessions since 1946, with some Prime Ministers contending with more than one during their tenures.  The recovery from the 2008-09 downturn has been the weakest of any recovery since 1946.

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