It is done through market open market operations in which there are generally two type of policies-
Expansionary monetary policy and
Contractionary monetary policy
When the bank of Canada wants to increase the money supply then it has to adopt expansionary monetary policy by purchasing the government securities and this will lead to more flow of the money in the economy because interest rate is lowered to the commercial banks
It causes decrease the reserves of the commercial banks because the commercial banks also lends it general public to increase money supply and boots spending
when the central bank goal is to reduce the money supply then it sells the government securities
Hence the answer is option C
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