Canadian building permits for December
- Prior was -7.7% (revised to -7.3%)
- Single-family dwellings +8.9% m/m -- largest rise in 2017
- Multi-family +7.0% m/m
- Non-residential -0.6% m/m
- Permits up 10.4% y/y in 2017
Those numbers are for values. In terms of the number of units, however, dwellings were down 5.3% y/y