This follows growth of 7,7 per cent and 7,3 per cent in 2013 and 2014 respectively. A number of other forecasters are, however, not as optimistic. To some extent, this slowdown is to be expected, as the previous stellar rates of growth were unsustainable, particularly as the Chinese economy grows off a larger base.
The focus has, of course, been on that day in a movie theatre in Nova Scotia in 1946. A successful business woman was denied a seat downstairs, was arrested and jailed, then ultimately convicted and fined for doing what was right in a system that was wrong. Yet, that day in the theatre was not the first time Viola Desmond had experienced systemic racism.