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The Consumer Price Index

March 2008

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Highlights

  1. Consumer prices rose 1.4% on average in the year to March, the fourth consecutive month in which the rate of growth has decelerated. This was the slowest rate of growth since January 2007.
Chart 1 Percentage change in the consumer price index and major components from the same month of the previous year, Canada, not seasonally adjusted
Source(s):  CANSIM table number 326-0020.