There has been little evidence of the “more transparent communication style” that Governor Poloz claims the Bank of Canada has adopted under his leadership. As usual, Poloz’s press conference to release the December Financial System Review on Thursday was available on video but there was no transcript available. The reporters don’t always identify themselves as they are supposed to and sometimes the audio is poor, so even with great pains it is hard to establish what was said in response to a question from which reporter. By contrast, a transcript was released for the press conference held the day before by Janet Yellen. Even before it became available it was much easier to know who Yellen was responding to than it was at Poloz’s conference as the camera would switch to the journalist asking the question and their name and affiliation would be shown on the screen.