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OTTAWA — It’s safe to say many Canadians were glad to see the back of 2015.

There was a mini-recession, fuelled by a caving oil sector and pushed deeper by weak business investment, along with sagging exports and an equally worrying decline in imports — all leading to aggressive cuts in the country’s long-stagnant key lending rate.

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That also kept downward pressure on the dollar, weakening the buying power of Canadians, while failing to spur demand outside the country for our products.

“It was a forgettable year overall,” admits Douglas Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.

But things might be looking up for the economy, if ever so slightly, with the year ending with a bit of a whoop, rather than a whimper.

On Tuesday, Statistics Canada delivered the full complement of the country’s 2015 economic data — for the final month, the final quarter and, finally, the whole year.

Gross domestic product rose by 1.2 per cent last year — matching the Bank of Canada’s forecasts — compared to a gain of 2.5 per cent in 2014, while the economy edged up by an annualized 0.8 per cent between October and December, down from 2.4 per cent in the third quarter.