Need to Improve Canadian Productivity Has Reached Emergency Level, BoC Official Says

Need to Improve Canadian Productivity Has Reached Emergency Level, BoC Official Says
Carolyn Rogers, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, holds a press conference at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa on March 6, 2024. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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A senior Bank of Canada official says the need to improve productivity has reached an emergency level as the economy faces a future where inflation may be more of a threat than in the past few decades.

“You know those signs that say ‘In an emergency, break the glass?’ Well, it’s time to break the glass,” Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers said in a speech on March 26.