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OTTAWA ― Canada’s budget watchdog says economic growth during the final quarter of 2019 will be “significantly weaker″ than predicted in its fall report.

In its latest report on near-term growth, the parliamentary budget office says real GDP growth in the final three months of last year will likely come in at near-stagnant levels, at an annual rate of 0.3 per cent.

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