The Bank of Canada is wading into the fraught and controversial world of digital currencies, launching public consultations this week into how Canadians might use a digital dollar.
“We’ve been researching a digital dollar for quite a while now,” said Carolyn Rogers, the senior deputy governor of the central bank. “And we’re at a point where we need help from Canadians, we need to understand what Canadians want.”
And yet the bank maintains there is neither a need nor a plan to launch a digital loonie.
So, why bother with the public consultations at all?
Rogers says more transactions are being done digitally. Only about 20
