Official Canadian source saying bitcoin is not legal tender? I've been reading a lot that Canada no longer considers bitcoin legal tender.


  "Only Canadian bank notes and coins are recognized as legal tender in
  Canada. Bitcoin digital ‘currency’ is not legal tender in Canada,” an
  official from Canada’s finance department said in an emailed
  statement.


It can be read in all of these places:


Canada Real Time
Memeburn
The Wall Street Journal


among others. However, not a single one that I can find sites the source document. They all just seem to refer to each other. Does anyone have a copy of the email or government source document stating this? I'll also accept proof that the document never existed as a valid answer.
The Currency Act defines what is meant by legal tender in Canada:


Legal tender

8. (1) Subject to this section, a tender of payment of money is a legal tender if it is made
(a) in coins that are current under section 7; and
(b) in notes issued by the Bank of Canada pursuant to the Bank of Canada Act intended for 
circulation in Canada.


Since these are the only two forms of payment considered legal tender, and bitcoins are quite clearly neither of these, the conclusion must be that bitcoins are not legal tender in Canada. Note that the Act doesn't explicitly have to name Bitcoin for this conclusion to nevertheless be true.