OTTAWA: It would be hard for Tiff Macklem to imagine a worse economic backdrop to begin his seven-year term as Bank of Canada governor.
One quarter of the nation’s labour force is out of work after the coronavirus pandemic and an oil-price crash triggered the deepest recession in the post-war era.
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