News Releases

- Average amount Canadians have taken out of their RRSPs is $17,213 - Approximately one in five use funds for living expenses (21 per cent) or to pay down debt (18 per cent) - National survey with regional breakdowns

- Forty-six per cent have already contributed or plan to contribute before the March 1st deadline, down four per cent from last year - For those who have already contributed this year, the average amount is $5,088 - an increase of $1,100 over last year - National survey with regional breakdowns

- Program eases home ownership costs for first-time buyers through a cash incentive - Offer coincides with B.C. government's new program for first-time home buyers

- BMO invites people everywhere to wish it forward in big and small ways throughout its bicentennial year - Wishing it forward is easy: choose your category, write your wish, and toss your digital coin online at www.BMO200.com, or toss your digital coin right into a first-of-its-kind BMO200 fountain