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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem needs to keep cutting interest rates and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to go, a survey of Canada’s CEOs found.<\/span> Photo by Azin Ghaffari, Kent Nishimura<\/span> \/Postmedia, Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\nArticle content<\/h2>\nLower interest rates and the defeat of Justin Trudeau\u2018s Liberals: those are the conditions many Canadian CEOs are attaching to an improved business outlook for 2025, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n
The inaugural poll by research and leadership company Chief Executive Group LLC said 42 per cent of the 300 Canadian C-suite leaders surveyed expect business conditions to improve 12 months from now as inflation continues to slow and the Bank of Canada carries on implementing interest rate cuts that have already brought rates down to 4.25 per cent from an almost two-decade high of five per cent.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n
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