On December 10, 2019, William White participated in a luncheon panel addressing this question at the C D Howe Institute in Toronto. Other panel members were Dawn Desjardins, Deputy Chief economist of the Royal Bank of Canada, and Mark Zelmer, former Deputy Superintendent of Financial Institutions at OSFI. Mr. White began the discussion with an overview of global developments. He concluded that growing stresses in the global economy, not least rising debt levels, could trigger a recession but would certainly aggravate one arising from other causes. Since our macro instruments to respond were now much constrained, serious thought should be given by governments as to how orderly debt restructuring might be facilitated.
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