Wilkins’s speech was called “…Strength in Diversity”. She seems to value every kind of diversity except diversity in thought. This is unsurprising since all BoC senior officials seem to fit the same cookie-cutter mould. None of them favour switching to a macroeconomic inflation index as the target inflation indicator, although that has become the norm in Europe and Oceania. Mark Carney suddenly discovered that the UK Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, which is a macroeconomic index and the target indicator of the Bank of England, was awesome when he was trying to become  the BoE governor, but even then he never called for StatCan to calculate a Canadian HICP, let alone advocate that it be the Bank’s target inflation indicator. It would be easy to cite other cases of ideological conformity. In most such cases the Bank of Canada is out of step with the evolving international consensus on how central banks should function.