Bank to remain on the side lines

Although first-quarter GDP growth appears to have been stronger than the Bank of Canada assumed back in April, we don’t expect it to signal another rate hike is imminent at next week’s policy meeting, not when the housing market remains vulnerable to the tightening in global financial conditions.

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