Topic: New rules meant to cool housing market
Ottawa's move to tighten rules on residential mortgages sets the economy in a new direction in 2011 - one that will rely less on debt-driven domestic spending and more on capital investment and improved trade, analysts said yesterday.
Driven by record low interest rates, Canada's housing market helped the economy through the depths of the recession, as exports, business investment and other economic drivers plummeted.
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