Cash transactions are way down. These advocates say the feds need to do something - Lemmy.ca

A consumer group is urgently calling on the federal government to follow other jurisdictions in the U.S and Europe and bring in legislation to stem the slide toward a cashless society. Only 10 per cent of transactions in Canada today are done using cash, according to Carlos Castiblanco, an economist with the group Option Consommateurs. “There is a need to protect cash right now before more merchants start refusing [it],” Castiblanco recently told CBC Radio’s Ontario Today. It’s critical to act now, he added, before retailers begin removing all the infrastructure required to store and maintain physical money.