Vic Toews, MP for Provencher, commented today on the newly released economic numbers from Statistics Canada showing that the Canadian economy grew 2.5% in the first quarter of 2013.
Additionally, Statistics Canada positively revised their economic growth for the fourth quarter of 2012 up from +0.6% to +0.9%.
“Our Conservative government is focused on what really matters to Canadians – jobs, economic growth, and our long-term prosperity,” said MP Toews. “The solid economic growth in the first quarter, the seventh straight quarter of positive growth, is another sign that Canada’s economy remains on the right track.”
The new economic growth numbers represent the strongest quarterly growth in nearly two years. Over 900,000 net new jobs have been created in Canada since the depth of the global recession (over 90% full-time and nearly 75% private sector). This represents the best job growth record in the entire G-7.
“Canada is not immune to the global economic challenges from outside our borders – especially in the US and Europe, which continue to threaten our economy,” added Toews. “That’s why our Conservative government is working hard to grow the Canadian economy in Economic Action Plan 2013. We’re doing it with positive measures like tax breaks to help small business create more jobs, the Canada Job Grant to help get more Canadians trained and into skilled jobs, the largest ever federal investment in job-creating infrastructure, new tax relief to help our manufacturing sector grow, and much more.”
While the Conservative government is focused on building a stronger Canadian economy in a challenging global environment, the Liberals have no economic plan whatsoever and the NDP continue to push for new, punishing taxes that would kill Canadian jobs like their $21 billion carbon tax.
