Economic growth has slowed considerably and indicators are pointing to another weak performance in the fourth quarter and sluggish 2% growth next year. Given expected productivity improvements, this pace of growth is too little to reduce the unemployment rate, nor does it risk pushing future trend inflation higher. For these reasons, we think the Bank of Canada must be concerned about the outlook, and possibly has officials wondering if the past policy rate increases were a mistake.
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