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As Canada’s central bank, the Bank of Canada’s official mandate is to “promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada.” It does this by implementing monetary policy, primarily through setting the target for the overnight rate, or the “key policy rate.” It manipulates this policy rate in order to keep the inflation rate as close to 2% as possible.

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