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Weekend Listen: Was Canada's 'technical recession' a data mistake?

Weekend Listen: Was Canada's 'technical recession' a data mistake?

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Enjoy this special feed drop from our sister show 'In This Economy?!'.

The economy started off 2026 in what economists called a 'technical recession', but a huge bounce-back at the start of the second quarter has raised some eyebrows about the validity of the Statistics Canada numbers in the first place.

Host Mike Eppel speaks to LJ Valencia, an economist at Desjardins and co-author of a study called 'Diagnosing the Data Quality Crisis'. They discuss the cutbacks at the government data agency, the implications of questionable information for policy makers, and just how much we could trust the data.

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