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The Bank of Canada should target full employment: 61 economists

June 4, 2018

On May 28th, 61 Canadian economists (myself included) signed the following letter urging the federal government to instruct the Bank of Canada to consider full employment and not only inflation when conducting interest rate decisions.  It was through the great organization of Mario Seccareccia that this was made possible and has received reviews by several media commentators, notably Barrie McKenna and Neil Macdonald.  Follow the links for the PDFs of the English letter, French letter.  This is the text of the English letter:
Letter Addressed to Honourable Bill Morneau, Federal Minister of Finance of the
Government of Canada, by Canadian Economists in Support of a Multi-Goal Mandate for the Bank of Canada
We wish to encourage the Canadian Government and, more specifically, the federal

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New child benefit impact on child poverty overblown

December 23, 2016

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