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Matthew Hoffarth is Assistant Director in the National Economic Accounts Division. He has been an economist within the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts for over 20 years where he has had the privilege to work on many aspects of the sequence of accounts from the supply-use tables to the national balance sheet. This has given him a head-to-toe perspective on measuring and understanding the Canadian economy. Currently, he oversees capital and property incomes and inventories as part of the Income and Expenditure Accounts, numerous Thematic Accounts based on the macroeconomic framework covering domains such as tourism and critical minerals, and the Financial and Wealth Accounts, which measure the wealth of all sectors of the economy and present key indicators of financial vulnerabilities. He has a Masters degree from Carleton University where he focused on behavioral economics and decision making.

Brenda Bugge is the Director for the National Economic Accounts Division at Statistics Canada. Brenda is a graduate from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador and has spent most of her professional career at Statistics Canada. Brenda has been compiling statistics to measure the economy for many years and is currently navigating the challenges of estimation during a pandemic and recovery.