Parks Canada has ditched cash payment option at Rideau Canal lots in favour of using Indigo parking, which requires an app or credit card.

Do you like the idea of all our payments for everything going through a private duopoly who takes a cut of every transaction?

We don’t have a digital option that’s open or private.

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The closest thing we have to a private digital cash that is not crypto is GNU Taler.

https://taler.net/

Do you like the idea of all our payments for everything going through a private duopoly who takes a cut of every transaction?

I don’t, so sign me up for the fight for better digital options. In fact I frequently advocate for a BoC-managed alternative to Interac. Even the US with its ridiculously contrived banking system is already working on it (FedNow).

But I don’t see the need to wait for that, we can go cashless AND work on better digital options simultaneously.

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