More from Bank of Canada's Macklem:
- Rates unlikely to go back down to pre-Covid levels
- Reiterates that even when we start reducing interest rates, it is likely to be a pretty gradual path
- reiterates that the central bank could start cutting rates before inflation hits 2%. Sites importance of seeing a sustainable decline in inflation
- If a federal carbon tax were to be eliminated, inflation would drop for one year and then go back up to where it otherwise would have been
- If we cut interest rates and that begins for weaken the Canadian dollar, that is something you take into account with how much you need to reduce interest rates.
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