It's the weak commodities price (i.e. low crude oil price because Canada likes to put all eggs in one basket). Canada is a commodity based economy. The majority of our exports are commodity (oil and mineral) backed. If they drop in price, our GDP is pretty much fucked, our dollars will then be worthless.+ {3 s( I5 n; k) ?' a0 U
! V& T# Z1 x# F* X) K$ t. [And with the big US spending cut, we'll export even less.