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BoC official warns against playing with mortgage rules to make housing affordable

November 6, 2024 No Comments

The Bank of Canada’s senior deputy governor is warning against adjusting mortgage rules to try to make the prospect of homeownership more affordable.

Bank of Canada can't solve housing affordability challenge

The Bank of Canada can’t solve the country’s housing affordability problem: Macklem

February 6, 2024 1 Comment

While monetary policy plays a crucial role in the housing market, lowering interest rates isn’t a silver bullet for resolving Canada’s housing affordability crisis, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said today.

High immigration contributing to housing inflation, BoC says

December 7, 2023 No Comments

While spending by newcomers to Canada is having a negligible impact on headline inflation, it is contributing to elevated housing and rent prices, the Bank of Canada says.

Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada

BoC’s Macklem doesn’t want to repeat the inflation-fighting mistakes of the 1970s

November 22, 2023 3 Comments

As a teenager growing up in the 1970s, Tiff Macklem said he recognized the impact high inflation was having on everyone: “Inflation made everyone angry.”

Carolyn Rogers, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada,

“We could see rates stay higher for longer,” Bank of Canada says

November 9, 2023 No Comments

Canadians must prepare themselves for the possibility that interest rates remain “higher for longer,” the Bank of Canada’s Senior Deputy Governor said today.

Larger and more regular price hikes by businesses keeping inflation “sticky,” says BoC

October 3, 2023 No Comments

The Bank of Canada says larger and more frequent price increases by businesses have contributed to keeping inflation higher than the Bank would like.

“Ups and downs” in inflation not unusual: BoC

September 19, 2023 No Comments

Despite the larger-than-expected rise in inflation in August, the Bank of Canada says that such “ups and downs” are not unexpected.

It’s possible interest rates aren’t high enough: BoC’s Macklem

September 7, 2023 1 Comment

While the Bank of Canada is “encouraged” by the way higher rates are working to slow inflation, Governor Tiff Macklem said it’s possible interest rates aren’t yet high enough.

OSFI seeks to address “problem” of fixed-payment variable-rate mortgages