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"The 62-year-old retired city councillor from Kingston, Ont., paid his $230 Visa bill last month in 985 instalments, often pennies at a time, to protest against the fact that his bank outsourced some of its credit card processing to a U.S. company. Mr. Rogers said he asked Vancouver-based Citizens Bank of Canada several times to end the practice, because U.S. authorities could potentially gain access to his personal information under the wide-ranging Patriot Act, a piece of legislation designed to crack down on terrorism."
Of course, the bank is refusing to stop this practice. The story goes on to say that much of Canada's credit card holders accounts are processed in the USA. Fellow Canadians: Is you're money and your financial records subject to the Patriot Act?
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