Yet this isn't the first time in the present campaign that the Conservatives themselves have trespassed on
traditional Bank of Canada terrain. On July 22 Joe Oliver publicly rejected the
use of quantitative easing in Canada (the unconventional credit - expanding strategy that has been
used successfully in the US, the UK, and now Europe) despite dimming
economic projections here. Decisions about the
use of QE should, in
theory, be the purview of the central bank. Several economists publicly questioned Oliver's statement, noting that it throws into question the Bank's future decisions on monetary policy.