 “The past ten years … [was] a period of unprecedented economic instability.”
If we ignore the major (and greater) instability of the Great Depression and look at the intervening years only, the claim is accurate. Although the 2008-2009 recession did not affect Canada as much as the recession in 1981-1982, it caused an upheaval in the global economy from which countries are still recovering at different rates, with an ongoing impact on Canada. 
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