To strengthen ourselves we need to make stronger ties with others. There's no use having a Canada-only payment system. We need a payment system that makes it easy for outsiders to buy Canadian (and vice versa).

The problem we have now is that we have only ONE country's providers, beholden to ONE country's governmental whims to do international transactions. We need something that is truly transnational instead of trusting a single country to be reasonable for all time.