Canada may be back at pre-pandemic employment levels, but the hard part isn’t over, say experts

'Once the tide rolls out on all of this rebound, we’re expecting fairly weak economic growth for Canada,' says the Conference Board of Canada's Pedro Antunes.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured at an event at the CEHO School in Ottawa on Oct. 21. Experts and MPs offered a mixed bag of suggestions for what the government should do next to support the economy, including calls to tweak, expand, or end support programs. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ALICE CHEN

November 24, 2021

As Canada comes out of the COVID-19 pandemic, early impressions of good economic recovery may be fool’s gold, say experts, who point to new and long-standing issues that will require government action. The good news is that according to the recent Statistics Canada

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