From tariff uncertainty and the Strait of Hormuz to new pipelines, LNG and AI, learn which forces will shape the economy in 2027 and where the opportunities lie.
What will 2027 bring for the Canadian economy, and what should accountants and their business clients be watching? In this engaging, interactive session, an economist walks through the forces shaping the outlook for Canada, Alberta and the United States, using charts, audience polls and real-world stories to make the economics easy to follow.
The course starts with the global picture: disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and their effect on oil prices, the potential return of Venezuelan production, and why U.S. tariff uncertainty is holding back the Canadian economy more than the tariffs themselves. It looks at why the U.S. economy has stayed resilient, the role of AI investment, the “K-shaped” divide in U.S. consumer spending, and the pressures pushing bond yields higher.
The session then turns to Canada: weak growth and employment, slowing population growth, the country’s innovation and business investment gap, and why cost of living remains Canadians’ top concern. It explains why the Bank of Canada is on hold, and why five-year bond yields matter more for mortgage rates than the overnight rate. It also reviews Canada’s economic game plan (major projects, export infrastructure, LNG and pipelines, internal trade barriers and the productivity deduction) and why the U.S. market remains essential.
The course closes with the Alberta forecast: why the province is outperforming, the role of interprovincial migration, youth unemployment, a narrowing wage gap, and an upside scenario driven by new pipeline capacity. It also looks ahead to labour and skilled trades shortages, and to opportunities in AI data centres, petrochemicals, agriculture and defence.
1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 1h 31m
The CPA Small Practitioners’ Forum was created to offer an inviting, semi-causal, and easygoing professional development weekend that provides substantial professional development value to small practitioners. All profit earned by the CPA Small Practitioners’ Forum is donated to the Alberta CPA Education Foundation, so you are helping young people in Canada get scholarships for university. All these courses are reviewed by the delegates at the Forum in Banff annually so we have a great lineup that is adjusted every year to keep things relevant to small practitioners. If you work at a public accounting firm in Canada with employees of 1-50 people, you are our target demographic and you should find this course useful.
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