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Reykjavik Shows Interest in Using the Canadian Dollar as Iceland’s National Currency

March 4, 2012
Alan Bones
Canada
Canadian Ambassador
Canadian Dollar
economic turmoil of 2008
Europe
Iceland
Icelandic Krona
loonie
unilateral currency adoption

Canadian ambassador to Iceland Alan Bones planned to deliver a talk on the future of Iceland’s current currency, the Krona, but instead finds himself offering to begin talks on Iceland’s adoption of the loonie as its means of exchange. Word of the remarks apparently reached Joseph Lavoie, Foreign Minister John Baird’s press secretary, who promptly […]