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If Canada’s population isn’t shrinking, our economic numbers aren’t so good after all

Just when we thought Canada’s population was falling by 0.5 per cent over the past year as of July – it turned out to be the other way around: it grew by that amount, as the improved counting of non-permanent residents revealed.

The latest upward revisions to population estimates by Statistics Canada are substantial enough to change the picture of our economy: The tiny bit of positivity we have had recently in our numbers may prove greatly exaggerated.

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