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  2. Canadian economic crisis (2022–present) - Wikipedia

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    Between 2018 and 2024, the administration recorded the seven highest years of per-person spending in Canada's history. By 2024, inflation-adjusted spending per person, excluding debt interest costs, reached $11,856, exceeding the 2007-09 financial crisis spending by 10.2% and World War II peak spending by 28.7%. [11]

  3. Canada in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Second World War had significant cultural, political and economic effects on Canada, including the conscription crisis in 1944 which affected unity between francophones and anglophones. The war effort strengthened the Canadian economy and furthered Canada's global position.

  4. History of Canada (1945–1960) - Wikipedia

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    Parents of children under 16 years old were given monthly payments between $5 and $8, depending on the age of the children. [2] The economy had prospered because of the war, and in Alberta, there was an economic boom due to the discovery of new oil fields in 1947. Spending on consumer goods increased during the post-war period while car ...

  5. Economy of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The general pattern of development for wealthy nations was a transition from a raw material production-based economy to a manufacturing-based economy and then to a service-based economy. At its World War II peak in 1944, Canada's manufacturing sector accounted for 29% of GDP, [109] declining to 10.37% in 2017. [102]

  6. Economic history of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The economy of the rest of the country improved dramatically after 1896, and from that year until 1914, Canada had the world's fastest-growing economy. [26] The west was settled, the population grew quickly, so that by 1900, Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier could predict that the twentieth century would be Canada's century as the nineteenth was ...

  7. Wartime Labour Relations Regulations - Wikipedia

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    [2] At the onset of the war, the Canadian government amended the Criminal Code, adding Section 502A that made it a criminal offense for an employer to fire a lawful member of a trade union. [3] However, without a good legislative definition of what a lawful union was, the offense was of limited effect.

  8. Canada in the world wars and interwar period - Wikipedia

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    Canadian troops resting on board a destroyer after the Combined Operations daylight raid on Dieppe during World War II. The Canadian economy, like the economies of many other countries, improved in an unexpected way with the outbreak of the Second World War .

  9. List of recessions in Canada - Wikipedia

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    List of Recessions in Canada [2] Name Start End The Great Depression: April 1929 February 1933 Recession of 1937–1938: November 1937 June 1938 [3] Recession of 1949: August 1947 March 1948 Recession of 1951: April 1951 December 1951 Recession of 1953: July 1953 July 1954 Recession of 1958: March 1957 January 1958 Recession of 1960–1961 ...