Imports dropped 4.7% on a 22.1% plunge in shipments of motor vehicles and parts, as many manufacturers in North America and abroad stopped or slowed production.
Overall exports fell by 1.0% as shipments of motor vehicles and parts dove 18.1%.
"The weakness was driven by ongoing restrictions in May," said Doug Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets. "I would point out that almost all the declines were in part-time jobs, which is one mildly encouraging feature here."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, addressing the House of Commons, also apologized for harm suffered by members of the community, with about 31,000 declared "enemy aliens."
CPPIB said net assets increased to C$497.2 billion ($410.40 billion) on the fiscal year-end, up from C$409.6 billion a year prior.
Most asset classes made gains over the period, with Canadian public equities and energy and resources real assets being the most profitable, returning 40.8% and 45.8% respectively.
Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 3.4%, from 2.2% in March, Statistics Canada said. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the annual rate to rise to 3.2% in April.
CPI common, which the Bank of Canada calls the best gauge of the economy's underperformance, was 1.7%, in line with analyst expectations. CPI median and trim both rose to 2.3%.
Some 207,100 jobs were lost in April, more than the average analyst prediction of a loss of 175,000. The unemployment rate climbed to 8.1%, missing analyst expectations of 7.8%. Employment remains 2.6% below pre-pandemic levels.
Full-time employment was down by 129,400 while part-time employment fell by 77,800 positions.
Analysts expect Canada's employment report on Friday to show the economy shed 175,000 jobs in April as restrictions were tightened in some provinces to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
The February data was revised to show 271,700 jobs were gained rather than a decline of 100,800. The report, derived from ADP's payrolls data, measures the change in total non-farm payroll employment each month on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Statistics Canada said the country added 303,100 jobs in March, triple analyst expectations of 100,000, as a number of industries continued to recover from December and January shutdowns.
"This is another strong jobs report," said Ryan Brecht, a senior economist at Action Economics. "However, the outlook for April activity has been dented by the return of regional lockdowns."
Employment in the goods-producing sector increased by 43,200 jobs, while service sector jobs rose by 260,000. Part-time employment rose by 128,000, with 175,000 new full-time positions.
"Clearly the economy was much more open than many believed and I do think the very mild weather contributed to this very robust comeback," said Doug Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.
Canada has lagged other rich countries in inoculations even though it ordered enough doses to vaccinate the population five times over late last year.
Shipments of 4.7 million doses are expected this week and next - 2.4 million from Pfizer Inc, 846,000 from Moderna Inc and a 1.5 million-dose loan of AstraZeneca's vaccine from the United States, according to federal forecasts and recent announcements.
With the addition of 259,200 jobs in February, Canada recouped nearly all the losses of the previous two months and beat the average analyst prediction of 75,000 new jobs.
Employment remains 3.1% below pre-pandemic levels, while the number of long-term unemployed fell by 9.7% from a record high of 512,000 in January.