Everyone knows that it is not as simple as that. It is how you work the numbers. The US is in a mess but not technicallyin a recession. They have struggled through two Trumps and Biden( Biden got it closer to right than Trump). But a few number adjustments and they would be in a recession.
Right now Canada is playing the long game.
I am not a federal Liberal or NDP but as I always say. If you had to have someone negotiate for your company and choice was Poilievre or Carney. Like most executives it would be Carney hands down.
We are heading into one of the biggest commodity booms in human history. Canada sits on one of the largest deposits of the commodities that the world needs. Yet, because of the absolutely insane policies of the Federal Government, we are in a recession.