Canada's prospects best for year: Dodge

Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge told Finance Minister Ralph Goodale in July the country's chances of steady economic and job growth are the best in years, Bloomberg News reported under Canada's Access to Information Act.

"The prospect of sustained expansion and job creation and of a rising standard of living for Canadians is better than it has been for some time," Mr. Dodge wrote in a private brief to Mr. Goodale obtained by Bloomberg News under Canada's Access to Information Act.

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