Record immigration won’t make the Bank’s job easier

The accepted wisdom is that strong immigration reduces the pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates, as it will eventually help to ease labour shortages. But the immediate impact has been to boost rental growth at a time when the Bank is chiefly concerned about inflation expectations, arguably putting more pressure on the Bank to tighten, not less.

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