The Bank of Canada’s balance sheet has been shrinking in recent weeks, as demand for its emergency repos loans continues to subside, and it will experience a bigger fall next spring, when the 12-month repo loans made at the height of the pandemic-triggered market stress this year are repaid. Nevertheless, as the Bank is likely to continue with its monthly bond purchases, the balance sheet should be bigger at the end of 2021 than it is now.
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