The recent speech by Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz on commodity prices and Canada’s economy attempted, albeit unconvincingly, to play down the significance of the slump in commodity prices to the economic outlook. We think Canada’s struggling economy is experiencing a mild case of the so-called Dutch disease.
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