An Equifax Canada report out this week found that close to 1.4 million Canadians missed a credit payment in the second quarter. Photo by Getty Images
Remember those warnings about Canadians falling off the mortgage cliff when the rock-bottom borrowing of the pandemic came up for renewal at much higher rates.
That cliff turned out to be of more of a “curb” as one observer put it , and the people who are struggling the most with debt these days, according to the latest surveys, don’t even have a mortgage.
An Equifax Canada report out this week found that close to 1.4 million Canadians missed a credit payment in the second quarter. That’s actually down a touch since the first quarter, but still 118,000 higher than a year ago.
However, the number of people who missed a payment who do