While the recent surge in new motor vehicle sales is an encouraging sign of household confidence perhaps, we think it is more likely a weather-related bounce back from the slowdown earlier this year. More importantly, with motor vehicle imports higher and Canadian auto production going sideways, the benefit to the economy from the surge in domestic vehicle sales was probably only modest.
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