New immigration targets may give the BoC further pause
The government’s new immigration targets raise the risk that most forecasters, including the Bank of Canada, are overestimating the outlook for population growth. While that presents a downside risk to GDP growth, the more important implication could be that the unemployment rate falls faster than we currently forecast. That would make the Bank even more hesitant to cut interest rates further.
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