Canada posted it's first monthly trade surplus in a year in March. Unfortunately, we expect the improvement to be fleeting. The March figures were flattered by a big weather-related jump in natural gas export volumes to the US and a sharp drop in the bilateral deficit with China, which is mainly a distortion caused by the timing of the Lunar New Year Holiday.
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