budget paper a the economy contents canadian 1 manitoba 3 agriculture 4 minerals 5 hydro electricity 6 manufacturing housing 8 retail sales tourism 9 labour markets population 10 investment 11 foreign exports 13 outlook at glance 15 economic statistics 1992 to 1996 16 most striking feature of canada s in was rising consensus among and analysts that has done remarkable job getting fundamentals right is therefore poised outperform other g7 economies over next few years for some time those same have had doubts about particular because high level public sector debt now five year record low stable inflation government deficits gone from being second highest lowest both these factors allowed interest rates plummet levels seen decades example chartered banks prime business rate 75 late since march 1956 monetary condi tions index reached post war see chart implying
