At this point, it’s better to tell people right up front, ‘We don’t know,’ as opposed to trying to put out numbers that we’ll be dissatisfied with in maybe less than a week. // To put numerical ‘certainty’ on the Canadian and Ontario outlooks at this point in time . . . seems silly – and potentially damaging if the outlook is used as a basis for short-term planning
Peter Dungan, economist, from UofT’s Institute for Policy Analysis, which published a report entitled We Don’t Have a Clue and We’re Not Going to Pretend That We Do (via The Globe and Mail and Canada.com)
It’s great that they are honest.