We're planning to offer choice at multiple levels. The way our product is designed, Interac and Visa are on the same piece of plastic. Consumers will have the choice with every transaction, whether they want to process it over the Interac network or the Visa network. But they will only have that choice if the merchant where they're shopping has agreed to accept Visa debit. So we've also built in a level of choice for merchants. They can opt out of Visa debit and decide not to accept it, again without impacting their acceptance of other Visa products.
On May 14th, 2009. See this statement in context.