Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Canada's Trade Deficit At A Surprisingly Wide $3 Billion In April

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country had a $3 billion trade deficit in April.

The April deficit was much bigger than the $2.1-billion deficit that economists had estimated, according to Thomson Reuters, but an improvement over the previous month.

Statistics Canada's revised estimate of March trade deficit was $3.9 billion, compared with an initial reading of $3 billion.

Statistics Canada says imports in April fell 2.5 per cent to $44.9 billion on lower imports of consumer goods as well as metal and non-metallic mineral products.

Import volumes fell 1.8 per cent while prices slipped 0.8 per cent.

Meanwhile, exports were down 0.7 per cent at $41.9 billion.

An increase energy exports was offset by declines in consumer goods, forest products and building and packaging materials. Export volumes increased 0.5 per cent, while prices declined 1.2 per cent.

Original Article
Source: huffingtonpost.ca/
Author: cp
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