Join us in New York on November 29th for the Bloomberg Canadian Finance Conference,

proudly sponsored by National Bank of Canada Financial Markets.

2023 marks the 11 year anniversary of our Canada focused event and continues the tradition of providing timely

insights and actionable strategies. We'll have senior government

officials from Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario as well

as speakers from Northland Power, World Bank, Transolta, and many more.

Register at Bloomberg Live.com slash Canadian Finance slash radio. Hello and welcome to Tracy Allaway.

So, Tracy All.

So Tracy, today we are going to have the fastest follow-up to a past guest that we've ever had I think because of

course we've had some guests a few times or at least twice but this time we were

talking to someone that we talked to literally just a few weeks ago.

Yeah, I think that's kind of a marker about how much has changed in markets and the economy in that short time because

when we spoke to this particular person I think it was

either late January or early February obviously the coronavirus was a concern

especially in China but it had yet to really take off in places like Europe

and the US. Now all of that is changing. People are worried about the economy, and of course,

we've seen a massive sell-off in markets.

Right, since that discussion we've had a de facto stock market crash, one of the fastest

declines ever breathtaking moves day after day, and now extremely serious and

legitimate worries that a recession could be imminent. So we were talking about a recession

is a sort of theoretical thing that at some point was likely to come, but now we were talking about a possible recession right here and right now really globally, but also, you know, specifically in the west and in the US.

Right and of course because we are talking about a potential recession that means

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