The rise in sales volumes suggests that, following July’s 0.1% fall, manufacturing GDP rose by 0.5% m/m in August. But as the General Motors strike in the US weighed on auto production in Canada in September, manufacturing GDP probably dropped back again at the end of the third quarter.
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