The Bank of Canada will have to keep rates higher for longer unless governments do more to dial back their spending, one of the country’s largest commercial lenders warned.

Economists are increasingly of the belief that Trudeau’s government is working at cross purposes to the central bank. Nearly 70 per cent of respondents to a Bloomberg survey say generous federal spending programs and higher immigration targets have led interest rates steeper than they would have otherwise needed to go.

Instead of targeted policy to limit reduce inflation, the federal and provincial governments have left the Bank of Canada to deal with it.