Is the Bank right to dismiss CPI-trim and CPI-median?

We are not convinced by the Bank of Canada’s recent claim that CPI-trim and CPI-median are currently overstating underlying inflation, although their elevated level compared to CPI-common is mainly due to external factors that should prove at least partly temporary.

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