From: bo774@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   Marc Bissonnette (usenet@canadianisp.com) writes:   
   >   
   > IIRC, you *can* open a bank account without a SIN, but it can earn no   
   > interest at all. I could be wrong on this, but I seem to remember something   
   > about this in the news a few years ago when some privacy nuts where   
   > complainging about 'da man' tracking everything they do.   
      
   My recollection is that they have to hold enough of the interest   
   to cover the highest marginal tax rate.   
      
   In any case, until the prime rate goes above 0.25% that is a minor   
   consideration. This isn't the 1980s.   
      
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