The price of oil was in the tank last year and there was also the damage from the Fort Mac wild fire.+

It will also take awhile for manufacturing and export to get up to speed after the mismangemnet of the Harper years-which by the way piled on debt to no good purpose-over 150 billion in debt and still programs badly undefended as Harper tried desperately and recklessly to get a balanced budget in the last year, something he had not achieved in all his years in office despite being handed a strong economy and a 13 billion surplus after years of surplus budgets under Chretien/Martin.

In fact while oil was at historic highs and China buying any minerals they could lay their hands on , Harper rolled out deficits year after year. He also permitted and even encouraged a real estate bubble.. During the Harper years. the oil bubble and the real estate bubble provided the sum total of what little growth there was to the detriment of Canada's overall economy.