Canada is the only G7 country that holds no gold. Not a reduced reserve. Zero. The Bank of Canada sold its last bars in 2016, the end of a sell-off that ran for decades under governments of every party. The official reasoning was that gold had become an illiquid relic in a world of floating currencies. So the country traded the hardest money on earth for other people's paper promises, and called it prudent. You don't have to make the same trade. You can hold an asset no central bank can print, dilute, or quietly sell out from under you. Canada gave up its hard money. Nothing stops you from picking up better.