Major City Insights: Victoria—October 2022

Victoria, Victoria British Columbia, BC, Fisherman's Warf

Major City Insights: Victoria—October 2022

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Author: The Conference Board of Canada

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While ongoing supply chain issues and other challenges sparked by the pandemic are still headaches, COVID-19 is no longer the biggest risk to the economies of most major cities across Canada. The main concern in the near term is the impact of stubbornly high inflation and rising interest rates. This edition of our Major City Insights provides new forecasts for growth in 13 major cities in Canada as of September 2, 2022. This publication focuses on the Victoria metropolitan area.

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Victoria’s real GDP will grow by 2.6 per cent this year and 1.8 per cent in 2023.

Some of the hardest-hit services sectors during the pandemic, including the accommodation and food services sector and the arts, entertainment, and recreation sector, will continue to recover over the next couple of years.

The services-producing industries will continue to outperform the goods-producing industries over the next several years as we move beyond the pandemic.

Our call is for Victoria’s consumer price index to rise by 7.6 per cent this year before easing back down to growth of 4.0 per cent in 2023 and 2.3 per cent in 2024.

Pressure to increase wages continues to rise, to compensate for higher prices.

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