“I’ve never been more confident in the business as I am right now,” Jennifer Wong, CEO of Canadian fashion retailer Aritzia, said in reporting last week that her company’s first-quarter profit had almost tripled.

And Wong forecast that revenues, up 35 per cent last year, would increase by a further 23 per cent to 28 per cent in the current fiscal year, to between $4.55 billion to $4.75 billion.