As increased offshore oil production boosts output in the primary and utilities sector in St. John’s in 2019, real GDP will expand by 4.0 per cent—the fastest growth of any major Canadian metropolitan area.
Abbotsford–Mission, Guelph, and Sherbrooke will post decent economic growth of 2.9 per cent, 2.5 per cent, and 2.1 per cent, respectively, this year.
Windsor, Oshawa, Kingston, Trois-Rivières, Moncton, London, Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo, Saint John, Saguenay, Greater Sudbury, St. Catharines–Niagara will all see more moderate economic growth of 2.0 per cent or less in 2019.
Cooling growth in manufacturing, construction, and transportation and warehousing will limit Thunder Bay’s real GDP growth to 0.9 per cent in 2019.