But Canada's strong performance during the past two or three difficult years for the world economy primarily reflects extraordinary efforts made during the 1990s to get our macroeconomic framework - that is, our monetary and fiscal policies - right. Canada, of course, was not alone in making these efforts.
15 See Chiacchio, F., K. Gradeva and P. Lopez-Garcia (2018), “The post-crisis TFP growth slowdown in CEE  countries: exploring the role of Global Value Chains”, Working Paper Series, No 2143, ECB. 16 See WTO (2018), “Report on G20 Trade Measures”, 22 November 2018 17 Schmitz et al. (2017), op. cit.