> let's keep our history constrained by fact. I live in Toronto too

This is hilarious. Toronto has no respect for facts, it has shown it will just fabricate histories out of whole cloth.

Nevertheless I'm tired of people citing anecdata and personal experience when upthread I have linked to a CBC article discussing a Bank of Canada report "arguing that cash-based transactions have plummeted from 54 per cent in 2009 to 10 per cent as of 2021."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-sleepwalking-in...