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  • 1. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, fourth quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-621-M2025016
    Description: Amid ongoing shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and U.S. policy, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions has remained an important tool for understanding the impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada. Building on analysis from the second and third quarters of 2025, which captured the introduction of newly imposed tariffs, followed by reactions to countermeasures, this paper presents updated findings for the fourth quarter of 2025 from the survey that was conducted from October 1 to November 5, 2025.
    Release date: 2025-12-18
  • 2. Analysis on small businesses in Canada, fourth quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025015
    Description: Between October and early November 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, which provides a better understanding of the differences businesses face based on their relative sizes. This article explores various aspects of small businesses, including labor-related expectations, anticipated obstacles, and future outlooks of optimism, while looking at the impacts of tariffs and interest rates.
    Release date: 2025-12-11
  • 3. Business conditions in Canada, fourth quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025057
    Description: From October 1st to November 5th, 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2025-11-25
  • 4. Canadian Survey on Business Conditions fourth quarter 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202532923725
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-11-25
  • 5. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025012
    Description: Amid shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and the U.S. administration, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, conducted from July 2 to August 6, 2025, incorporated a series of targeted questions to gauge the sentiment, expectations and strategic responses of businesses across Canada. This paper provides an overview of the survey findings, examining the anticipated impacts on sales, business uncertainty and selling prices, as well as the array of mitigation strategies businesses have adopted to navigate the evolving economic landscape.
    Release date: 2025-09-18
  • 6. Analysis on expected use of artificial intelligence by businesses in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025011
    Description: This article explores how businesses plan to use AI over the next 12 months and the types of AI they intend to use when producing goods or delivering services. It also explores how businesses expect AI to affect their employment levels, what operational changes they anticipate over the next 12 months and why some are choosing not to use AI. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-09-11
  • 7. Business conditions in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025044
    Description: From July 2nd to August 6th, 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 8. Analysis on artificial intelligence use by businesses in Canada, second quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025008
    Description: This article explores results from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions related to the use of AI in producing goods and delivering services. Furthermore, this article explains the specific types of AI being used, such as machine learning, virtual agents and voice recognition, as well as the impact of AI adoption on tasks performed by employees and on employment levels. It further explores the importance of AI investment to business operations.
    Release date: 2025-06-16
  • 9. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, second quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025007
    Description: Amid shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and the U.S. administration, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, conducted from April 1 to May 5, 2025, incorporated a series of targeted questions to gauge the sentiment, expectations and strategic responses of businesses across Canada. This paper provides an overview of the survey findings, examining the anticipated impacts on sales, business uncertainty and selling prices, as well as the array of mitigation strategies businesses have adopted to navigate the evolving economic landscape.
    Release date: 2025-06-09
  • 10. Business conditions in Canada, second quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025037
    Description: From April 1st to May 5th, 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2025-05-27
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  • 1. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, fourth quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-621-M2025016
    Description: Amid ongoing shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and U.S. policy, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions has remained an important tool for understanding the impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada. Building on analysis from the second and third quarters of 2025, which captured the introduction of newly imposed tariffs, followed by reactions to countermeasures, this paper presents updated findings for the fourth quarter of 2025 from the survey that was conducted from October 1 to November 5, 2025.
    Release date: 2025-12-18
  • 2. Business conditions in Canada, fourth quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025057
    Description: From October 1st to November 5th, 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2025-11-25
  • 3. Canadian Survey on Business Conditions fourth quarter 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202532923725
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-11-25
  • 4. Business conditions in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025044
    Description: From July 2nd to August 6th, 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 5. Business conditions in Canada, second quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025037
    Description: From April 1st to May 5th, 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2025-05-27
  • 6. Business Conditions in Canada, first quarter 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025025
    Description: From January 2nd to February 6th, 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2025-02-28
  • 7. Business conditions in Canada, fourth quarter of 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024052
    Description: From October 1st to November 4th, 2024, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2024-11-25
  • 8. Business conditions in Canada, third quarter of 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024034
    Description: From July 2nd to August 6th, 2024, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2024-08-27
  • 9. Business conditions in Canada, second quarter of 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024025
    Description: From April 2nd to May 6th, 2024, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2024-05-27
  • 10. Non-profit organizations in Canada, 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024023
    Description: From January 2nd to February 5th, 2024, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This iteration of the survey focuses on business expectations and business conditions in Canada. In addition, the questionnaire for the first quarter of 2024 includes a component specifically for non-profit organizations (NPOs). The intent of this set of questions is to address a present data gap and to provide a better understanding of the non-profit sector. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2024-04-29
Articles and reports (36)

Articles and reports (36) (0 to 10 of 36 results)

  • 1. Analysis on small businesses in Canada, fourth quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025015
    Description: Between October and early November 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, which provides a better understanding of the differences businesses face based on their relative sizes. This article explores various aspects of small businesses, including labor-related expectations, anticipated obstacles, and future outlooks of optimism, while looking at the impacts of tariffs and interest rates.
    Release date: 2025-12-11
  • 2. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025012
    Description: Amid shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and the U.S. administration, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, conducted from July 2 to August 6, 2025, incorporated a series of targeted questions to gauge the sentiment, expectations and strategic responses of businesses across Canada. This paper provides an overview of the survey findings, examining the anticipated impacts on sales, business uncertainty and selling prices, as well as the array of mitigation strategies businesses have adopted to navigate the evolving economic landscape.
    Release date: 2025-09-18
  • 3. Analysis on expected use of artificial intelligence by businesses in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025011
    Description: This article explores how businesses plan to use AI over the next 12 months and the types of AI they intend to use when producing goods or delivering services. It also explores how businesses expect AI to affect their employment levels, what operational changes they anticipate over the next 12 months and why some are choosing not to use AI. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-09-11
  • 4. Analysis on artificial intelligence use by businesses in Canada, second quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025008
    Description: This article explores results from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions related to the use of AI in producing goods and delivering services. Furthermore, this article explains the specific types of AI being used, such as machine learning, virtual agents and voice recognition, as well as the impact of AI adoption on tasks performed by employees and on employment levels. It further explores the importance of AI investment to business operations.
    Release date: 2025-06-16
  • 5. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, second quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025007
    Description: Amid shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and the U.S. administration, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, conducted from April 1 to May 5, 2025, incorporated a series of targeted questions to gauge the sentiment, expectations and strategic responses of businesses across Canada. This paper provides an overview of the survey findings, examining the anticipated impacts on sales, business uncertainty and selling prices, as well as the array of mitigation strategies businesses have adopted to navigate the evolving economic landscape.
    Release date: 2025-06-09
  • 6. The outlook of rural businesses, first quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 21-006-X2025003
    Description: This article examines the business conditions and expectations of rural and small town businesses in Canada, with comparison to urban counterparts by industry for contextual support. Topics include business obstacles, expectations for the next year, workforce changes and other subjects from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, first quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-03-24
  • 7. Analysis of businesses outsourcing work in Canada, first quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025006
    Description: This article explores the characteristics of businesses in Canada that outsource tasks, projects, or short contracts, and the types of work that is being outsourced by industry and size of businesses, based on data from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-03-20
  • 8. Analysis on majority women-owned businesses, first quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025005
    Description: Businesses in Canada continue to face a variety of challenges in the new year. Business outcomes and challenges expected also vary across businesses owned by different populations. This article focuses on the expectations of one of these populations: majority women-owned businesses. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-03-13
  • 9. The outlook of rural businesses, fourth quarter of 2024
    Articles and reports: 21-006-X2025001
    Description: This article examines the business conditions and expectations of rural and small town businesses in Canada, with comparison to urban counterparts by industry for contextual support. Topics include business obstacles, expectations for the next year, workforce changes and other subjects from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, fourth quarter of 2024.
    Release date: 2025-01-13
  • 10. The state of business financing and debt in Canada, fourth quarter of 2024
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2024018
    Description: Recent changes in economic conditions may have impacted business decisions related to debt. In this rapidly changing context, understanding business debt levels, the challenges associated with debt, and plans for taking on new debt are important. This article provides insights on the topic of debt and its impacts on businesses in Canada. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2024-12-19

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