ABOVE: Jim Prentice stated at a press conference on Tuesday that he doesn’t agree with the Conference Board of Canada’s prediction that Alberta was slipping into a recession.
EDMONTON – Alberta’s premier says he does not agree with a Conference Board of Canada suggestion that Alberta is likely to face a recession due to the plunging price of oil.
Jim Prentice calls the conference board report an outlier based on analysis that is not particularly convincing. The economic think-tank notes that Alberta’s latest employment and new housing start numbers are holding steady, but if oil prices stay low the province will slip into recession.
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Prentice says the board’s report is at odds with the projections of all the chartered banks and several other economic forecasters.
He says those predictions call for only a slippage in Alberta’s economic growth.
More to come…
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