OTTAWA -  Canada’s GDP rose by 0.3 per cent in April, after rising 0.1 per cent in March. GDP was up two per cent year-over-year.

Statistics Canada said most of the April increase came in mining and oil and gas extraction and, to a lesser extent, wholesale trade.

Transportation services as well as the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting sector also increased.

Retail trade, manufacturing, accommodation and food services and the public sector declined.

Mining and oil and gas extraction rose 2.7 per cent in April after declines of 2.0 per cent in February and 1.1 per cent in March.

Wholesale trade was up 1.2 per cent in April, a fifth consecutive monthly increase.