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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
OTTAWA — The head of the Bank of Canada is nothing if not patient.
With the economic adjustment to the oil-price collapse “proving to be uneven” — and output further hampered by the Alberta wildfires — governor Stephen Poloz is still managing to hold the line on expectations, and interest rates.
On Wednesday, Poloz and his policy council chose to keep the central bank’s trendsetting lending level at 0.5 per cent — unchanged since July and unlikely to be adjusted at all this year, and perhaps not until well into 2017.
Even as the economy continues to struggle with meagre job creation, a recent slide in retail sales and disappointing business investment, the governor appears to see some light ahead.
That’s because Poloz and his policy team — with help from the federal government’s stimulus program — are hoping the clouded outlook will dissipate in the second half of this year, an assessment that is broadly in line with forecasts by private-sector analysts.
“The (domestic) economy’s struc...<|im_end|>
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The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: OTTAWA — The head of the Bank of Canada is nothing if not patient.
With the economic adjustment to the oil-price collapse “proving to be uneven” — and output further hampered by the Alberta wildfires — governor Stephen Poloz is still managing to hold the line on expectations, and interest rates.
On Wednesday, Poloz and his policy council chose to keep the central bank’s trendsetting lending level at 0.5 per cent — unchanged since July and unlikely to be adjusted at all this year, and perhaps not... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
