This is old news. Dodge is a  tiresome bore. He seems to want to crave the spotlight even though he stepped down as Governor of the Bank of Canada more than a decade ago. He's basically useless. I asked him if Canada shouldn't adopt an owner-occupied housing component based on a net acquisitions approach, similar to what has been proposed by Eurostat when he gave the Purvis Lecture at an annual CEA meeting. He was obviously completely ignorant  about their plans. He told me that the EU left homeownership costs out of their HICP altogether which was more or less true. He cut me off when I tried to tell him what they were planning to do. He's rude as well as clueless.