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A slumping economy, precarious oil prices, over-leveraged consumers and a possible housing bubble ready to burst: Canada isn’t looking so good these days.

Throw in a lack of diversification and it’s little wonder why the country’s primary equity market continues to lag its global counterparts heading into the back half of 2015. There just isn’t much for investors to get excited about, even though broad-based returns have hardly been catastrophic.

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For all of its problems, perhaps because of them, Canada has become a bit of a stock-picker’s playground, one that offers investors who play it right just as many opportunities as pitfalls.

“It’s been better than a lot of us feel,” said Garey Aitken, the chief investment officer of Franklin Bissett Investment Management in Calgary. “We continue to find opportunities and probably more now than a year ago.”