Statistics Canada says the annual pace of inflation slowed in December compared with November as gains in the price of gasoline slowed.
The agency says the inflation for the final month of 2017 was up 1.9 per cent compared with the same month a year earlier. That compared with a reading of 2.1 per cent in November.
Excluding gasoline, prices were up 1.5 per cent year over year in December, matching the increase in November.
In PEI, prices were 2-percent higher year-over-year in December.