Michael Chong: “one month of anemic growth, of half a per cent, does not change the overall picture.”

Canadians struggle to pay their everyday cost of living because of all of this.

They have failed to introduce competition reform in a number of sectors of the Canadian economy that would help reduce the price of everything from groceries to gas to housing.

A recession has been often defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and so on that definition, Canada is in a recession.

I think the trajectory of the current government is no different than the previous Liberal government and that's why Canadians continue to struggle with affordability.