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3  BIS Review 90/2000  On 30 September 1950, Douglas Abbott, the Minister of Finance, announced that: Today the Government, by order in Council under the authority of the Foreign Exchange Control Act, cancelled the official rates of exchange which, since September 19th of last year, had been calculated on the basis of a 10 percent premium for the United States dollar in Canada.