Bank's second-quarter GDP estimate is too low

We think the Bank of Canada has over-estimated the negative impacts on second-quarter GDP from Alberta's recent major flood and Quebec's construction labour strike. Instead of 1.0% annualised, we estimate that the economy grew by 1.5% in the second quarter. Were it not for these two negative events, GDP may have grown by as much as 2.0%.

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