Infographic 1
Building permits, July 2022

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The title of the infographic is "Building permits, July 2022"

It includes multiple components, such as a map, tables, pictographs and images.

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Figure 1: Month-to-month change in total value of building permits (seasonally adjusted).

This is a map of Canada by province and territory that shows the month-to-month percentage changes of total building permit value. Green arrows represent an increase, while red arrows represent a decrease.

Building permit values in Canada were down 6.6% compared with June. Newfoundland and Labrador up 59.6%, Prince Edward Island down 1.7%, Nova Scotia down 23.7%, New Brunswick down 4.7%, Quebec up 7.9%, Ontario down 23.4%, Manitoba down 15.2%, Saskatchewan up 28.2%, Alberta up 7.1%, British Columbia up 12.0%, Yukon down 74.5%, the Northwest Territories down 83.0%, Nunavut up 8.9%.

Figure 2: Building permits for residential and non-residential construction in Canada (seasonally adjusted).

Residential: a month-over-month decrease of 8.6%.

Non-residential: a month-over-month decrease of 2.1%.

Single-family dwellings: total value was $3,594 million, representing a month-over-month decrease of 5.7% or $216.3 million.

Multi-family dwellings: total value was $3,988 million, representing a month-over-month decrease of 11.1% or $499.8 million.

Industrial: total value was $677 million, representing a month-over-month decrease of 16.9% or $138.1 million.

Commercial: total value was $2,070 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 0.1% or $1.2 million.

Institutional: total value was $838 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 7.9% or $61.5 million.

Source: Table 34-10-0066-01, Building permits, by type of structure and type of work.