One shouldn't have to say this, of course, but Canadians should keep an eye on unemployment in the United States because, when U.S. consumers have jobs, they get in a buying mood and they tend to buy a lot of stuff made with Canadian exports.
So this is a rather sobering observation from Roger Alcaly: “Even if the economy grows five per cent a year over the next three years, which seems unlikely, the US will probably not return to full employment before 2013.”