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.