You can’t complain about a 3.5-per-cent growth rate, especially when you consider that it tops Canada’s average GDP growth of 2.9 per cent in 2005. But with our bounty of natural resources and booming commodity markets, it’s hardly the raging bull many expected from the B.C. economy last year. In fact, many economists describe B.C.’s overall economic performance last year as fairly flat.
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