In person, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is relaxed and even cheery. But get him talking about the Bank of Canada (BoC), and he suddenly seems to vibrate on a higher intensity level.
“When I’m prime minister, we’ll have sound money. The Bank of Canada will have one job, and that’s to keep inflation at two per cent with an eye not just to CPI inflation, but asset price inflation. And that’s how we’re going to stabilize demand for assets like housing,” he says.
