Gordon Thiessen: Update on economic and monetary developments in Canada  Opening Statement by Mr Gordon Thiessen, Governor of the Bank of Canada, before the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce, Ottawa, on 6 April 2000. *  *  *  I very much appreciate the opportunity to appear regularly before your Committee.
I would like to use this particular occasion to update you on economic and monetary developments as well as to discuss any issues that you may want to raise. Let me first give you an overview of the developments in the past year.