Oliver Predicts Canada’s Shrinking Economy Will Avoid Recession
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Finance Minister Joe Oliver doesn’t believe Canada will fall into a recession amid “mixed signals” from an economy that’s contracted for four consecutive months.
“We don’t have a recession. We don’t believe we will be in a recession,” Oliver said Friday in Toronto. “A recession is technically two consecutive negative quarters and we don’t have results from the second quarter.”