The recommendation about opening a USD bank account does NOT work. PayPal will convert it to CDN upon send, and then if it goes into a USD account your bank will charge you another conversion fee. So 2x fee PayPal will send any money to Canadian residents in CAD, regardless of what type of account you have, where the bank is, etc. And, PayPal's exchange rate is approx 2% worse that commercial bank rates. So you would like lose 2% exch fee + 2% exch fee +2% bad exch rate. This is pretty terrible, and PayPal knows it.
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