Canada is finally going plastic.  Australia has had plastic notes for years and I used to invite groups at uni in Russia to tear up my bank notes I brought along or at least try to crumple them.  They couldn’t – when released, the note just sprang back into shape again.

I’d prefer to see us back in a barter economy where commodities rule but failing that, coin at its face value and a long last – government backed promissory notes in plastic, backed by a range of designated commodities.

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