Coils of steel are seen in a yard outside one of ArcelorMittal Dofasco's steel manufacturing buildings in Hamilton, Ont., on June 4, 2025. Photo by COLE BURSTON / AFP via Getty Images

Canada’s central statistics agency accidentally released factory data a day before schedule.

Statistics Canada confirmed it mistakenly published manufacturing sales numbers for June on its website Thursday morning. Once the issue was identified, access to the tables was immediately disabled and the pages were frozen, the agency said.

It did not provide the data tables that were published, and said the information will be released as planned on Friday at 8:30 a.m. Ottawa time.

“Statistics Canada takes this incident very seriously. We are conducting a thorough review and will determine whether addition

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