CBDC consultation: 87% distrust. Shelved — not cancelled.
The capability still sits on the shelf. Understand what that means before the shelf moves.
Institutional record entries and Ready.ca evidence briefings.
The capability still sits on the shelf. Understand what that means before the shelf moves.
They left individually, in an information vacuum. Ready.ca exists so the next ones don’t.
The bank freezes weren’t an overreach exception. They were a capability the government demonstrated — and still possesses.
This is not a scandal. It is a diagnostic. Procurement outcomes are incentive-consistent, not accidental.
The productive class has felt this for a decade. The numbers now confirm it is structural, not cyclical.