The rise in the official core inflation rate to 2.4%, from 2.1%, was a surprise, but the details showed that this was largely due to pass-through effects from the lower Canadian dollar, rather than any fundamental strengthening in underlying economic conditions. Accordingly, we think the Bank of Canada will ignore it.
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