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Trudeau out, Trump in, tariffs up, trade down – as Canadians embark on 2025, it’s clear this will be a year of upheaval.
That was already going to be the case before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would step down and Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Coming off several years of punishing inflation and high interest rates, the road back to normal was filled with potholes, with households struggling to cope with their debt loads, businesses retrenching and weak productivity threatening to undermine living standards.
To help make sense of 2025, The Globe and Mail asked dozens of experts, including economists, investors, academics and business leaders, to each choose a chart they think will be important to watch this year. The charts they picked cover everything from stubbornly-high mortgage rates and artificial intelligence’s reach to teetering stock prices and Canada’s renewed brain drain to the United States.