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All Justin Trudeau wants to talk about is the economy. That may change.

The Canadian prime minister spent the end of 2017 on the defensive over tax changes, his finance chief and an ethics reprimand. He often parried the attacks by saying his political opponents were only slinging mud because they didn’t want to talk about the economy, which led the Group of Seven in growth last year.

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Trudeau’s defence is about to weaken, with Canada’s economy poised to fall back to Earth this year from an expected 3 per cent gain in 2017. The country will expand at a still solid pace of 2.2 per cent in 2018, behind the U.S. and tied with Germany for second in the G7, Bloomberg survey estimates show. Canadian growth is then forecast to slow again to 1.8 per cent in 2019.

Strong growth last year “probably moved the Canadian economy close to capacity, so as a result there are capacity constraints that are starting to kick in,” Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada, said in an interview. In a report last month, RBC forecast growth of 2.9 per cent in 2017, 1.9 percent in 2018 and 1.6 per cent in 2019, all slightly below consensus estimates. “Growth of 1.9, given the circumstance, is still a solid pace,” Ferley said.