Doug Ford called this week for the Bank of Canada to lower interest rates. Photo by Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press

Ontario Premier Doug Ford appeared to take a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook Wednesday, calling out the Bank of Canada and urging it to cut interest rates.

“The Bank of Canada, they need to lower those interest rates, by whatever, half a point,” Ford said Wednesday during a press conference following a meeting with premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney. “Give some confidence to people.”

The Bank of Canada has held interest rates at 2.75 per cent for the last three consecutive rate announcements, though at its most recent meeting in July indicated that the door was open to future rate cuts. Some of Canada’s large financial institutions think the Bank of

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