Our members have to accept whatever form of payment the customer is providing. If they don't, the customer will just take their business somewhere else.
With credit card fees, they have next to no ability.... They can't understand why rates are so high and why they can't come down. They've certainly heard that the federal government has tried to address this issue. Certainly the code of conduct was a step in the right direction, but since then, there hasn't been much in the way of rates coming down. Certainly that's been the feedback we've received from our members, which is why we've gone on record as saying that if you can't bring those rates down the way they have been lowered in other jurisdictions, explain why. There may be other options that we can take a look at.
Until we have that open conversation, which we haven't had to date, we're left to think that maybe the government should do what they've done in other jurisdictions.