Bank won’t need to talk tough for much longer

The Bank of Canada’s insistence that inflationary risks have increased seems at odds with its new forecasts, which show a large degree of economic slack opening up next year. Our view that the Bank is still overestimating the near-term outlook for both the economic growth and inflation suggest it won’t need to maintain its tightening bias for long.

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