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By 2024, Canada experienced a significant economic divergence from the United States, marking a departure from decades of parallel growth. This shift became particularly pronounced after 2022, with Canada's per-capita national income falling to approximately 70% of U.S. levels, down from 80% just five years earlier.
Canada’s economy has already showed vulnerability coming out of a period of inflation, causing the country’s central bank to cut interest rates much faster than the Federal Reserve.
Canada's job market continues to perform well along with the US, reaching a 30-year low in the unemployment rate in December 2006, following 14 consecutive years of employment growth. [152] Flags of Canada and the United States. The United States is by far Canada's largest trading partner, with more than $1.7 billion CAD in trade per day in ...
On October 24, 2018 the Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate to 1.75%, the highest it has reached in ten years to prevent inflation. The key interest rate had been kept low in response to the 2008 economic slowdown. [43] By raising the rate, the Bank of Canada is indicating that the Canadian economy no longer needs "stimulus." [43]
Rogers Communications had an outage July 8 that affected many activities, including bank transactions.
Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland quit on Monday after clashing with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on issues including how to handle possible U.S. tariffs, dealing a huge blow to an ...
Freeland, who was then foreign minister, played a large role in helping renegotiate the pact and saving Canada's economy, which is heavily reliant on the United States.
In their April 2019, the Bank of Canada concluded that Canada's housing market is "currently in uncharted territory" as they monitored the impact of the new mortgage rules. [43] While the report does not use the word "bubble," it instead uses the term "froth," to describe "resales exceeding fundamentals" in Vancouver and Toronto in 2015-2016 ...