We asked you to come out and vote for your favourite credit cards and loyalty programs in Canada. And that you did! We had over 82,000 people vote in the 2023 edition of Canada's Choice making it a record smashing year! That's nearly four times the previous record set in 2022!
New champions have been crowned in two categories as the TD Rewards Visa Card claimed the top spot in the No Annual Fee Travel Rewards Credit Card category and the PC World Elite Mastercard took the Cash Back Credit Card category. The winners in the other eight categories remain the same as we saw in 2022.
We want to give a big thank you to our regulars readers who cast their votes and also a big thank you to all of the newcomers who came to out to vote this year as well!
These are the 10 categories featured in Canada's Choice 2023:
With our largest turn out ever for Canada's Choice we thought there may be some big changes but overall the way Canada voted didn't change very much from last year. However, we did notice for most categories that the results were much closer between the nominees outside of the Cash Back Credit Card and Shopping Loyalty program categories.
For example, the Top No Annual Fee Travel Rewards Credit Card has less than 0.5% separating first and second place! And while the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card still took top spot as the most popular overall travel rewards card it only did so with just over a 7% difference from second spot. In 2022 that spread was nearly 25%.
In general the results do show the prowess that the large loyalty programs and credit card issuers have. It was all the big players who had great showings. Aeroplan, TD, PC Optimum – all of which are some of the most popular programs and credit card issuers in Canada and this reflects in the votes.
Once again we want to give a big thank you to all of you who came out to vote in Canada’s Choice 2023!
Want to see how these rankings compare to Rewards Canada's researched rankings? Check out our Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards, Top Cash Back Credit Cards and Best Travel Rewards Points Currencies
Here are the Top 10 Overall Travel Rewards Credit Cards as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 58,220 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 No Annual Fee Travel Rewards Credit Cards as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 49,031 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 Airline Frequent Flyer Program Credit Cards as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 42,099 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 No FX Fee Rewards Credit Cards as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 26,674 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 Cash Back Rewards Credit Cards as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 50,364 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 Ultra Premium Credit Cards as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 32,813 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 Credit Card Reward Programs as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 68,419 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 Airline Loyalty Programs as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 47,753 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 Hotel Loyalty Programs as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 43,040 total votes cast in this category
Here are the Top 10 Shopping Loyalty Programs as voted by Canadians. Percentage of votes in brackets. There were 77,302 total votes cast in this category