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Building permits, February 2023

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The title of the infographic is "Building permits, February 2023"

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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 up 8.6% compared with January. Newfoundland and Labrador up 507.7%, Prince Edward Island up 13.4%, Nova Scotia up 13.3%, New Brunswick up 15.8%, Quebec up 17.2%, Ontario up 10.7%, Manitoba down 12.9%, Saskatchewan down 40.4%, Alberta up 25.6%, British Columbia down 17.2%, Yukon up 129.6%, Northwest Territories down 1.5%, Nunavut flat 0.0%.

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

Residential: The total value was up 7.9% month over month.

Non-residential: The total value was up 9.8% month over month.

Single-family dwellings: total value was $2,673 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 0.5% or $12.7 million.

Multi-family dwellings: total value was $3,886 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 13.6% or $465.2 million.

Industrial: total value was $1,032 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 42.0% or $305.4 million.

Commercial: total value was $2,322 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 6.2% or $135.0 million.

Institutional: total value was $817 million, representing a month-over-month decrease of 7.6% or $66.9 million.

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