Pierre Poilievre

The United Kingdom as well seems to have been lagging, both the United States and Canada.

And Germany, as you said, in 2024, their GDP growth was only 0.2%.

which is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of percentages lower than the United States, Canada, or even the UK.

But clearly there is a problem with GDP growth here for Canada, for the United Kingdom, relative to a country like the United States.

It looks like the United States are doing something right.

If you look at GDP growth as the main measure,

So looking at the numbers of Singapore, Singapore operates in a league of its own, outperforming both the UK, Canada and the USA in terms of growth and per capita wealth.

As a hub economy, it is currently riding the wave of the global AI boom because they've enabled entrepreneurship.

And it is more than, from a GDP perspective, last year, more than double the United States GDP growth.

And I mean, it's left Canada and the United Kingdom and even Switzerland in its tracks in that regard.

Interesting.

Every sort of economic policy or philosophy does have a trade-off.

I mean, it's one thing you learn as a podcaster, there's just always trade-offs.

And if you're not clear on what the trade-offs are, then they might surprise you.

Right.

I mean, you know, you can talk about socialism or you can talk about capitalism, whatever.

All of them have trade-offs.

What are the trade-offs of your economic strategy and philosophy?

Because I'm thinking about how immigration ties into all of this and to GDP growth.

I think in Canada, from the research I was doing, there has been a decline in birth rates.