Victor Dodig, chief executive of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, at CIBC Square in Toronto, 2022. Photo by Christopher Katsarov Luna/Bloomberg files

Despite the current economic hurdles and United States president Donald Trump ’s tariff threats , Canada “will be OK,” says Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ‘s outgoing chief executive just days before his retirement.

Victor Dodig , who has led Canada’s fifth-largest bank for about a decade, said the country’s natural resources sector and its highly educated labour force should help Canada “come out on top.”

But he also said that the past decade could have been better.

“Let’s say the last 10 years have been, maybe not our finest hour,” Dodig, who retires on Friday, said at a Canadian Club event in Toronto on Monday. “Maybe

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