The pick-up in the official core inflation measure this year is partly due to one-off factors. Nevertheless, the Bank of Canada also pays close attention to alternative measures of underlying inflation, which are currently doing a better job of adjusting for those temporary factors and, consequently, have not risen as far this year.
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