News Releases

- Business owners demonstrate cautious optimism moving into 2017

- Employee hiring and online presence continue to propel momentum for small businesses across the country

- Province's GDP expected to advance 0.5% compared to last year

- Agriculture shows reason for optimism, undeterred by implications of oil and gas in other areas of housing and mining

- Real GDP will likely grow 1.4 per cent this year, up from 1.1 per cent in 2015

- Export momentum is picking up and the stabilized fiscal landscape is supportive of business investment

- The jobless rate has fallen to 7 per cent, the lowest level in just over a decade, but demographic headwinds will keep trend growth below the national average

- Real GDP growth expected to moderate slightly to 1.0 per cent this year

- U.S. demand and the weaker Canadian dollar anticipated to support exports and tourism

- Knowledge-based and high-tech companies, particularly in the aerospace sector, continue to grow

- Public sector restraint and slow population growth likely to remain a drag on the province's economy