In other countries such as France, Switzerland and UK, where the credit cards are all SmartCards, their ATMs still accept the US meg cards for cash withdrawal. At least that was our experiences through out 2008.

I wonder if Canada would really stop accept meg cards for ATM use effective 2012?

Also it has been discussed in this forum, that in some vending machines (train stations for example), when a PIN is required, one can just punch in virtually anything and the transaction would go thru with the meg card, prompting the user to think, Is the Smartcard really more secured?!