OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday of avoiding accountability after recent data showed the Canadian economy contracted again.

Statistics Canada said Friday that real gross domestic product declined 0.1 per cent on an annualized basis in the first quarter. That’s the second consecutive quarterly contraction to start the year, meeting some definitions of a technical recession.

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