Hands off our access.

Ottawa wants to ban cryptocurrency ATMs across Canada.

That means taking away one of the few simple, physical ways ordinary Canadians can access digital currency and handing even more control back to banks, regulators, and centralized gatekeepers. This is bigger than ATMs. It's about whether Canadians get to choose how they access financial tools or whether Ottawa decides for them.

Tell Ottawa: keep your hands off our access.

If this ban goes through, Canadians lose:

A simple, cash-to-digital access point

A practical alternative to the big-bank system

One of the easiest entry points for first-time users

Control over how they use their own money

Canada invented this. Now Ottawa wants to ban it.

The world’s first cryptocurrency ATM was installed right here in Canada, in Vancouver, in 2013.

We didn’t just adopt this technology. We built it.

Now, instead of building on that leadership, Ottawa is moving to ban the tool entirely; not because it’s failing Canadians, but because banning it is easy.

Less than 1% of crypto ATM transactions are flagged for fraud. The overwhelming majority are legitimate Canadians using a lawful service. This isn’t targeted policy. It’s a blanket ban and ordinary Canadians will pay the price.

Instead of targeting criminals, Ottawa is moving to take away a lawful service used by legitimate Canadians.

That is the easiest thing for the government to do: not fix the problem, not go after bad actors, not build smarter rules. Just ban the tool and take away the public’s choice.

That is lazy policy. And it is exactly how governments expand control: one restriction at a time, always in the name of “protection,” always at the expense of ordinary people.

Who loses? We do.

The people hurt by this ban aren't powerful insiders. They're everyday Canadians:

First-time users who aren't on trading platforms

Anyone who doesn't want banks controlling every access point

Communities that depend on convenient, physical access to financial tools

People who want a simple, in-person way to access digital currency

Canadians who prefer cash

Ottawa will call this a technical regulatory update. For the Canadians who use these services, it's not technical at all. It's one more door closed. One more option gone. One more decision made over your head.

Big banks shouldn't be the only ones allowed to run ATMs.

Canadians already operate in a financial system dominated by a handful of powerful institutions.

Now Ottawa wants to narrow that field even further, effectively declaring that physical access to financial services belongs to traditional players only. The same institutions many Canadians are actively trying to move beyond.

That's not consumer protection. That's not innovation.

It's protectionism dressed up as public policy.

Take action before the decision is locked in.

If you do nothing, Ottawa will assume Canadians don't care. If enough people speak up now, MPs will hear that this ban is unpopular, unnecessary, and politically costly.

Email your MP today