Canadian economy craters in Q2 due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Economist and professor at Queen's University Don Drummond says the Canadian economy was hit deepest by COVID-19 in the second quarter.

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[JustinBarylski]

Breaking news: mass unemployment, blowing out budget, and completely shutting down country bad for economy

"we never could have seen this coming" says federal leadership

[fauztran]

They spelled "due to government tyranny" wrong.

[raymondbrace]

Drop the restrictions and the economy will recover.

[timmalo]

Wouldn’t a more accurate headline read, “... due to the manner in which the Liberal government handled the Covid-19 pandemic”

[elliotmillar]

Just like Dave said, you just need someone who knows their stuff and of course has the heart of a teacher to help you become successful in whatsoever investment you decide to venture into.

[Johnnynomadic]

They're to blame for this with these relatively unnecessary draconian restrictions

[asdaww.]

Nope, sorry, we can all see through
this VERY misleading title.

[chrissmith]

Canadian economy craters in Q2 due to the RESPONSE to COVID-19 pandemic

[truthbomb]

It all going according to the plan folks

[miroslav_jovic]

Cancel CERB and stop printing money than let's see how bad things get.

[gillesbonneteau]

no its been on a decline since trudork got in

[IIMDBS]

Canadian economy cratered due to poor leadership federally

[motley]

So why didn't castro close down entry into the country when he should have ... back in early February. Please PRAVDA. Answer that for me.

[scottmclennan]

Don't worry this carefully engineered debt currency creation sceme will go just as planned.

[jax-sxpk]

This is ridiculous. I miss the days when news reporters would actually ask real questions. Or call out the guest on misrepresentations Give me a break.

[SD-czog]

Non essential businesses??? This headline proves that those businesses are essential. Are we done with all this stupidity yet?

[barrl]

but but but out debt to gdp ratio is the best in the g7....ya so much for that

[alohm]

Household spending dropped 13%: because household incomes dropped 100%. Geniuses, both.

[neooverdrive]

Not the result of covid-19, the result of horrible government policy. Other countries did it better, some even posted an improvement and they had the same covid we had.

[cinnamon_art]

This is what you get when you ignore Alberta