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Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz holds a press conference to make an interest rate announcement and release of the bank’s monetary policy report on Jan 9. The bank reduced its GDP forecast for 2019 substantially, to 1.7 per cent growth from 2.1 per cent. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

January 30, 2019

OTTAWA—I remember sitting in London, U.K., in the summer of 2007 reading the first stories about the financial cliff the world was about to tumble over. I think the original articles had to do with an angry consumer vandalizing a car belonging to the head of a big Scottish bank. Most Western coun...

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