Gordon Thiessen: Why a floating exchange rate regime makes sense for Canada  Speech by Mr Gordon Thiessen, Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Chambre de commerce du Montréal métropolitain, Montreal, Quebec, 4 December 2000.
*  *  *  Why a floating exchange rate regime makes sense for Canada As I near the end of my term as Governor, I find myself looking back more and more, focusing on the broad, longer-term trends in our economy and in financial markets and on what those trends may imply for the future.