CBC.ca | Canada's trade gap widens to $2.5B on oil price slide CBC.ca The decline of oil prices is eating into Canada's hopes for improving exports, as the value of crude oil and bitumen exports declined by a whopping 23 per cent in the past year. In January, Canada's trade gap widened to $2.5 billion — the largest ... Canada Begins 2015 With Oil Receipts Plunging by a Fourth Low oil prices push up Canadian trade deficit to near record Oil prices push up Canada's global trade deficit |