Bank of Canada

Opening Statement Available as: PDF Good morning. Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins and I are happy to be with you to answer your questions about today’s interest rate announcement and our Monetary Policy Report (MPR). Before taking your questions, let me briefly offer a few insights...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Available as: PDF The Bank of Canada today maintained its target for the overnight rate at 1 ¼ per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 ½ per cent and the deposit rate is 1 per cent. Inflation in Canada is close to 2 per cent as...

Available as: PDF The Bank’s new forecast calls for economic growth of 2.0 percent this year, 2.1 per cent in 2019 and 1.8 per cent in 2020.

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Available as: PDF The Annual Report outlines the Bank’s activities and achievements in 2017. It includes the financial statements and a message from Governor Stephen S. Poloz.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Bank of Canada’s Annual Report for 2017 was tabled in the House of Commons today. The Report will be available at 12:00 (ET) on the Bank’s website.  For more information, please contact Media Relations at 613-782-8782.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Available as: PDF The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce that Stephen D. Williamson of Western University and Peter F. Christoffersen of the University of Toronto are the 2018 recipients of the Bank’s Fellowship Award. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Available as: PDF While much has been accomplished to make the financial system more resilient, the job is not done, Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins told the audience today at a conference on lessons from the crisis at the...

Remarks Rotman School of Management conference “Are We Ready For the Next Financial Crisis?” Available as: PDF A clear lesson of history is that a “sine qua non” for sustained economic recovery following a...