Nemo,
  It's a four year mandate and the infrastructure spending, not surprising, takes time to be released when done right. We're not building fake lakes and gazebos here.  It'll follow the election cycle for obvious reasons and most announcements will come in the year preceding the next election. That's how it works. But the money for infrastructure is there.  And you're smart enough to know this from the quality of your comments so why the rhetoric?  Yes, jobs have been trending up since 2009, but the spike in full time jobs started in 2015.  Oil accounts for some of the growth, absolutely, but giving the middle class more money to spend (lower taxes, Canada Child Benefit) had a positive effect on the economy too and consumer confidence. There's always a host of factors that account for growth many not in the control of the government. There was also a huge fire that hurt the economy in this time frame too.