In the speech 'How monetary policy supports Canada's economy' given on 24 September Pierre Duguay of the Bank of Canada reviewed the recent record of the Canadian and U.S. economies and discusses the role of monetary policy. He suggests that the protracted U.S. economic slowdown, which now appears to be ending, was a result of cyclical factors and other unusual shocks that did not have the same impact on Canada.

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