text: Currie writes: “The update noted that over the past year, the Canadian economy grew by 3.7 per cent, which led the G7 by a considerable margin. He is referring to the annual real GDP growth rate for 2017Q2, when US growth was only 2.2%. However, a lot of people might think he was referring to the annual growth rate for calendar year 2016, the first full calendar year the Trudeau government was in power. In 2016, the growth rate was only 1.4%, which was only the fourth highest growth rate of any G7 country, behind Germany (1.9%), the UK (1.8%) and the US (1.6%).