A penny for the entrepreneurs' thoughts no more?

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This caught my eye:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/04/06/ottawa-small-business-penny-concerns.html

Granted that this is likely a one-off thing - at least until the coin-pinchers decide to drop the nickel or the dime! - but seeing as it's still useful to lots of people, myself included, why accept federal finance minister Flaherty's argument that the Canadian penny has to go away forever?