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• The Canadian economy may be one of the most difficult to forecast right now. This is largely the result of the fact that the nation is attempting to thread a...
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The Canadian economy may be one of the most difficult to forecast right now. This is largely the result of the fact that the nation is attempting to thread a needle between sharing a border with a country led by Donald Trump, while simultaneously cultivating a trade relationship with China in hopes of carving out a place in the global economy that is truly its own.
One would imagine that with such a rare combination of natural resource wealth and technological sophistication, Canada will be just fine, if you can ignore all the noise; but, there is indeed a great deal of noise. Nonetheless, no matter the specifics for Canada’s economic fate, considering the nation’s mix of a sparsely distributed population, world class education system, and heavy exposure to strategically critical sectors,