Why would I bother ? Because its Its true!!! ... Cant verify where
your article is getting its source from.
Mark Carney did
"sell off all of Canada's gold reserves" mineral deposits and reserves are two different things altogether
Source ... CBC no less ("Communist Broadcaster of Canada")
"quote form article - 2016"
"The government of Canada has wound down its gold reserves to basically nothing after a multi-year strategy of selling them off in favour of hoarding other countries' currencies instead.
According to the Department of Finance's
official international reserves data released Thursday, Canada's gold reserves were down effectively to $0 as of the end of February. That's the value that Ottawa assigns its gold holdings from an accounting perspective.
In fact, Ottawa still has 77 ounces of gold, worth about $130,000 Canadian at current market prices. All of that consists of gold coins, as opposed to large bullion bricks that the government once hoarded.
The price of gold surged to its highest level in more than a year on Friday at $1,274.70 US an ounce.
Ottawa's gold holdings peaked in the 1960s at more than 1,000 tonnes. But the government has been steadily selling off its gold holdings ever since. By 2003, Ottawa was down to 3.4 tonnes, which it has now almost entirely sold.
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