Full Stop: Canada’s Five-Year Outlook

Full Stop: Canada’s Five-Year Outlook

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Author: Cory Renner, Doris Chu, Kiefer Van Mulligen, Liam Daly, Maxime Arseneau, Meghan Eibner, Richard Forbes, Robin Wiebe, Ted Mallett

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This quarterly economic forecast provides highlights of the Canadian Outlook report, which presents the short-term national outlook.

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  • Surging population growth is masking serious structural weakness in the economy.
  • Even with strong population growth, we expect real GDP to show virtually no gains between the first quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024.
  • Consumers are parking their spending, but the slowdown is more emphatic in the group most heavily mortgaged.
  • Housing policy is finally gaining governments’ attention, but it remains to be seen if coherent supply solutions will emerge.
  • Labour markets are softening, but the unemployment rate should remain below 6.0 per cent.
  • Export performance will be sluggish behind a weakening world economy, but imports will slow even more, leaving an improvement in net trade balances.
  • The drive to push inflation back down to 2.0 per cent continues, but interest rates at current levels likely can do the job.

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