It is (and has been for a while) the goal of the Bank of Canada to keep inflation between 1% and 3%: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/core-functions/monetary-policy/in...
And it is not doing too bad: https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/inflation-cpi
This article expands that argument at length: http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/the-phillips-...