Canada's gross domestic product shrank by 0.2 per cent in December from the month earlier, as inventory investment slowed sharply, imports declined, and exports rose slightly.
Statistics Canada said Friday that in the last three months of 2012, Canada's economy still eked out a small gain of 0.2 per cent, about the same pace as the country saw in the previous quarter.
Added to the data for the rest of the year, the latest report shows Canada's economy grew by 1.8 per cent for 2012 as a whole. That's slower than the 2.6 per cent pace seen in 2011.
"Momentum in the Canadian economy has thoroughly waned from the growth figures that were once being posted in 2010 and 2011," Scotiabank's economics team said in a research report following the release of the data.
Since the third quarter of 2011, the economy has posted consecutive quarterly growth rates of 2.2, 1.7, 1.7, 0.6 and now 0.2 per cent, the bank notes.
The main source of strength in the economy was mining and oil and gas extraction, the data agency said.
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