Statistics Canada to release January’s inflation numbers on Tuesday

Statistics Canada will release its consumer price index report for January on Tuesday.  Economists say they don’t expect much movement in the inflation numbers but do say the underlying change in prices will be clouded by the government’s G-S-T break which was in effect the entire month.  Canada’s annual inflation rate ticked down to 1.8 per cent in December largely because of the federal government’s sales tax pause.  PEI’s annual inflation rate in December fell to 0.4 per cent from November’s 1.8 percent.