No Change to Rates. The Bank of Canada kept Canada's key lending rate at the same place it's been for a year: 1.00%.As a result, variable-rate mortgage holders can expect prime rate to also stay put at 3.00%.

 

 

A separate survey from Reuters shows analysts expecting the Bank of Canada's rate hike campaign to resume in Q2 2012. (That's been pushed back from their Q4 2011 prediction a month ago.)