Canada's second-quarter GDP slowdown

Canada's economy contracted sharply at the end of the second quarter, but only partly because of one-off factors related to severe floods and a brief labour strike. For the second quarter as a whole, stronger household consumption and housing investment likely buffered weakness in exports and business investment.

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