Canada’s population advantage offset by weak productivity

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada's bank regulator, is signalling it’s concerned a prolonged downturn is a distinct possibility, which is currently not a best-case scenario for the Bank of Canada, the Government of Canada, or most bank economists, writes Theo Argitis.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured, acknowledged her government will need some sort of response to U.S. President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, which tops the list of major corporate worries in Canada.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY THEO ARGITIS

January 2, 2023

While most Canadian economists were paying attention last month to the release of slightly hotter-than-expected inflation numbers, Statistics Canada also published its latest quarterly population estimates, which were arguably much more significant for the long-ter...

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