It’s my pleasure to be here with the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership. I applaud your efforts to develop exports from this province to the rest of the world – Canada’s economy needs those exports. From my vantage point at the Bank of Canada, I take a broad view of the Canadian economy as a whole.
But, depending on where you work or where you live, your sense of how well the economy is doing will vary. From one region of Canada to another, from one sector of the economy to another, we are seeing fundamental differences in the demand for our products, in employment, in wages and in housing.