Stephen Poloz Comes to Smith

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, Artsci’78, came to Smith in March to deliver the Chancellor David Dodge Lecture in Public Finance. Stephen told a packed audience that Canada’s economy is filled with “untapped potential” in the form of five population segments currently under-represented in the workforce: young people, women, Indigenous people, Canadians with disabilities and recent immigrants. An increase in the employment rate among these groups could easily add half a million people to the workforce, thereby increasing the country’s economic output by 1.5 per cent, or $30 billion per year, he noted.

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Stephen Poloz is the third Bank of Canada governor to go to Queen’s. David Dodge, Arts’65, LLD’02, and Gerald Bouey, Arts’48, LLD’81, also led the central bank.