Canada’s economy has mostly recovered from the 2008-09 recession. But according to a new report, our individual well-being has not. The University of Waterloo’s national index of wellbeing found that from 1994 to 2014, the country’s GDP grew 38%. But our wellbeing rose by only about 10%. And the gap is even wider than it was just before the recession hit. Bloomberg TV Canada’s Amanda Lang speaks to the report’s author, professor Bryan Smale.
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