A senior Bank of Canada official says the central bank must be rigorous and transparent in order to maintain the public’s trust.
In a speech in Sherbrooke, Que., explaining the bank’s rate-setting process, Nicolas Vincent, the bank’s external deputy governor and a professor at HEC Montreal, says communicating how it comes to its interest rate decisions is almost as important as the decision process itself.
He says when the bank cut its key interest rate in July, it said that downside risks to inflation were becoming increasingly important in the deliberations by the governing council, but the message was misunderstood….