VANCOUVER—Justin Trudeau is the only prime minister since 1900—and only one of three prime ministers since Confederation—to increase Canada’s per-person debt without facing a world war or recession, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
The other two prime ministers to have increased per-person debt outside of times of war or recession were John Abbott (1891-92) and Mackenzie Bowell (1894-96).