Ottawa, Ontario

• December 15, 2016

  Release of the Financial System Review

  Opening statement Stephen S. Poloz Ottawa, Ontario

  Press conference following the release of the Financial System Review.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Housing, Regional economic developments, Sectoral balance sheet
• December 15, 2016

  Financial System Review - Press Conference (Webcasts) - December 2016

  

  Press conference by Governor Stephen S. Poloz and Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins. (11:15 (ET) approx.).

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Webcasts
• December 15, 2016

  Risks to financial stability largely unchanged, household vulnerabilities remain key concern

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The overall level of risk to Canada’s financial system remains largely unchanged from six months ago, the Bank of Canada said today in the Financial System Review (FSR).

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• December 7, 2016

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1/2 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• December 1, 2016

  Bank of Canada announces details of forthcoming changes to its published foreign exchange rate data

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced a final list of the 26 foreign currency exchange rates that it will continue to publish after 1 March 2017.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Source(s): Canadian Foreign Exchange Committee
• November 25, 2016

  Bank of Canada announces finalists for the second annual Governor’s Challenge

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  NOTE TO EDITORS: This press release has been revised to reflect the new date of the final round of The Governor’s Challenge, 4 February 2017.

  The Bank of Canada announced the finalists for the 2016–17 edition of The Governor’s Challenge, a student competition in which teams simulate the role of advisor to the Bank’s Governing Council.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Source(s): The Governor's Challenge
• November 24, 2016

  #bankNOTEable Canadian woman will be revealed on 8 December, Bank of Canada publishes short list of five

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  On Thursday, 8 December 2016, the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Canada will reveal which iconic Canadian woman will be featured on the next regularly circulating bank note, expected in 2018.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• October 24, 2016

  Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance

  Opening statement Stephen S. Poloz House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Ottawa, Ontario

  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and committee members. Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins and I are happy to be before you today. It is our normal practice to appear before this committee twice a year to discuss the Bank’s Monetary Policy Report (MPR). We published our latest MPR last week and are happy to answer questions about […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• October 24, 2016

  Joint Statement of the Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada on the Renewal of the Inflation-Control Target

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada agreed that the inflation target will continue to be defined in terms of the 12-month rate of change in the total CPI, that it will continue to be the 2 per cent mid-point of the 1 to 3 per cent inflation-control range, and that the agreement will run for another five-year period, ending 31 December 2021.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• October 19, 2016

  Opening Statement before the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce

  Opening statement Stephen S. Poloz Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce Ottawa, Ontario

  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and committee members. Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins and I are pleased to be back before you today to discuss the Bank’s Monetary Policy Report (MPR), which we published this morning. It has been six months almost to the day since we were last here, and several of the broad themes that […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements