The report also noted such poor economic results couldn’t be blamed on blowback from the 2008 recession. Since 1946, Canada and its governments experienced 10 recessions, but the recovery from the most recent 2008 downturn has been the weakest than those prior.

Unifor compiled its data from Statistics Canada and other public sources regarding 16 key indicators typically used to demonstrate economic progress and well-being, namely work (including job creation and unemployment rates), production (including GDP and productivity growth) and distribution and debt (such as income, inequality, personal and government debt).

For 13 of those 16 main indicators, the current government placed last or second to last among all postwar Prime Ministers, according to the union.