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May 7, 2018, 10:15 pm

#1934

worldtraveller73

Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: YVR - Vancouver, with most winter weekends in Whistler.

Programs: Aeroplan 35K, Alaska MVP, Marriott Titanium / Lifetime Platinum, Hertz President's Circle

Posts: 4,609

One way of looking at it is that the Canadian Amex was $1 CAD = 1 Starpoint. This is a 22-28% advantage against the US card. Staying at a hotel, everything gets converted to US dollars then $1 USD = 1 Starpoint.

I think this was to be competitive against all other card programs like Amex Rewards, Aeroplan etc...