Press

• September 10, 2003

  Governor Reviews Measures to Foster Confidence

  Media Relations Vancouver, British Columbia

  Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge said today that substantial progress has been made in building investor and consumer confidence in the face of recent economic shocks and corporate finance and accounting scandals.

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• September 10, 2003

  Fostering Confidence

  Remarks David Dodge Vancouver Board of Trade Vancouver, British Columbia

  It's great to be back in Vancouver and to renew acquaintances at the Board of Trade. I'm going to spend some time today discussing the Bank of Canada's outlook for the Canadian economy and inflation, and how we are responding. But in order to understand the current economic situation, we need to look at some of the extraordinary events of the past year or so and how those events have affected the economy.

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• September 5, 2003

  Spruce Meadows Roundtable

  Remarks David Dodge Spruce Meadows Roundtable Spruce Meadows, Alberta

  Canada's reliance on foreign trade has required us to be active internationalists for decades. Louis Rasminsky, who went on to become Governor of the Bank of Canada, was one of Canada's delegates at the Bretton Woods Conference that led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Rasminsky played an important role, formal and informal, at the talks.

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• September 3, 2003

  Bank of Canada lowers target for the overnight rate by 1/4 percentage point to 2 3/4 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one-quarter of one percentage point to 2 3/4 per cent.

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