>>They are no longer legal tender.

>The $1 and the $2 notes stopped being issued in 1989 and 1996 respectively. They are not demonetized and you can still exchange such money at any bank in Canada, or the Bank of Canada, for its face value.

>https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/about-legal-tender/

Keep reading and you'll find they they do not meet the definition of legal tender. Like I said. Here's a quote from their site (https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-redemption-s...)

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Bank notes that are no longer legal tender

Since January 1, 2021, the Canadian $1, $2, $25, $500 and $1,000 bank notes are no longer considered legal tender. Essentially, this means that you may not be able to use them in cash transactions.
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>> While all cards in Canada may have chip and PIN, no such event occurred where across the nation everyone started using it for every purchase, like there was no transition

> What the hell is this supposed to mean? EMV-enabled cards were rolled out as each bank got onboard, replacing cards at expiry with EMV-enabled ones. Eventually no further non-chip cards were issued.

> After a while, the same thing happened for contactless as well.

Again, I am explicitly making the claim that it is misleading to suggest Canada was ahead of the United States by mandating all credit cards have chip and PIN, because by then you could do the same thing with contactless (signatureless transations, with a benefit of not using a pin) just like in the United States.

>> nor different options to use with the same card.

> EMV supports multiple applets per card, so you can absolutely have a debit and a credit card in the same physical card, choosing which you want to use after you insert it into the reader. These are unusual, perhaps because most people seem to prefer separate cards.

I'm aware. I've had one.

>> The assertion that the United States is somehow behind Canada in payment technology because all credit card issuers do not issue cards with chip and PIN seems invalid to me.

> The United States isn't just behind Canada, it's behind Europe, Australia, and most of Asia, as well.

I kindly reject your assertion, because you are basing it on Canada requiring all cards have chip and PIN, but not enforcing its usage at all terminals.

> I can send money from one European country to another in a regulated maximum of 15 seconds 24/7/365 (look up "SCT INST"), but the Americans can't get it from one bank to another in the same country quicker than a day or two (or sometimes three, apparently). Never mind consumers trying to punch in someone's ABA routing and account numbers to pay them... lol nope, hence the mess of insecure third-party services like Zelle, CashApp, etc.

> Skimmers aren't really a thing in Europe because everything is EMV, and I don't mean the abortion which is chip-and-signature (although that still proves possession of the original card).

>> Additionally the surprise at not requiring signatures. Merchants have been accepting contact-less enabled card payments in the United States, requiring no signature, for quite awhile.

> Again you speak from whence you know not. Google Pay and Apple Pay use a different CVM, referred to as CDCVM, for which there is no PIN as user authentication is handled by the device (hence the need for a fingerprint or face scan before they can be used). For small transactions plastic cards are permitted to perform contactless transactions without a PIN in most countries for convenience as the risk of fraud is low given the maximum cumulative cap of perhaps €50/$50, configurable by the issuer, before a PIN becomes required, which caps the bank's liability in case of theft (since the cardholder is not on the hook for it).

I think we're done talking now, given you keep telling me I don't know what I'm saying, and you are obviously just ignoring the fact that I've been completing contactless, signatureless transactions with my credit card for a significant amount of my purchases made in the United States and Canada since 2008.