Canadian dollar reaches parity with US dollar!

Guess that means Canadians arn’t worthless anymore.

Besides, it’s not a faltering US Economy, it’s a stronger Canadian Economy.  Every economist in the world in a government paid position says the US economy is strong, it is just not as strong vs other economies as it was during the Reagan Administration.  This is most likely due to the fall of the Socialist empire in Asia/Europe and the rise of national conglomerations such as the European Union which mirror, in their own way, the states of the United States.

This is a good thing!  If Europe, Asia, Africa, Canada, etc become more like us, then there will be less cultural differences and more harmony!

I’m pretty sure we let this happen so the Canadians would feel better about themselves …

Watch the political content.

FYI:  In 1973, the Canadian Dollar was STRONGER than US dollar.

I have a notation on page 167 of the 1973 edition of the Websters New World Dictionary with Student Handbook that shows the Canadian Dollar as being worth $1.01.81 cents American.

I still think it’s a good idea to have many nations comprised similarly to our own with currency similar to our own.  It makes us more alike and like things tend to like each other.

@Amon:

i found it very interesting indeed

global economics/politics is changing faster and faster with each decade

maybe now some people show up with the idea that both USA/Canada have one unit, simply a dolar

somehow think that Canadians would like the idea too much

we’ve had this discussion before in Canada - there are a few who do like the idea, but i think on the whole we do not believe this is a good way to go.  In fact, aside from certain industrial/production processes, there is not too much in the US that i think we would do well to copy.  I would much prefer that we keep our own “dollar”.  It is one more thing that is unique about us, and what’s more - it only took 4 years for our dollar to reach parity from 2/3’s - how long until our dollar surpasses it by the same amount?  Granted this would suck for our exporters (unless they became more competitive and the rise happened slowly), but i really can’t think of a really good reason to match to the greenback - unless one is a fan of Dilbert books.
But i look to the US and i do not see so much of this “harmony” so i am not certain how blending out cultures with that of the US would generate more of it.

I was talking to a guy from Toronto last week … I can’t wait until we have Boxing Day down here!
I say we annex Canada!

whats boxing day?

multiculturalism destroys nations, always has, and always will. case in point is a part of canada always trying to seceed?

any history buff will tell you this.  this is the reason why big empires and big nations fall, due to multiculturalism.  always from within.  you need them to all be american.  rather than a hypen.  its no good.

@balungaloaf:

whats boxing day?

multiculturalism destroys nations, always has, and always will. case in point is a part of canada always trying to seceed?

any history buff will tell you this.  this is the reason why big empires and big nations fall, due to multiculturalism.  always from within.  you need them to all be american.  rather than a hypen.  its no good.

You need to READ more about Canadian history before you POST.  The fact is that Quebec is not always trying to seceed - if they really wanted to, they would have done so by now.  Also this has nothing to do with multiculturalism, and everything to do with:

1. a terribly generous surrender package offered by the British to the French in Quebec
2. a terribly mis-informed and heavily propagandized group of Quebec citizens
3. other nations making overtures to Quebec
   Ironically enough, it is multiculturalism that helped hold Canada together in the last attempt at separation - the separatists even mentioned this (the reason why “Jacques Parizeau” is a bad word around the Bloc Quebecois).

This dollar thing is probably planned out in advance. Bush wants Canada and Mexico to be one nation like the western hemisphere’s EU Thats the focus of his immigration policy, banks issuing accounts and credit to illegals, mexican trucks being able to deliver stuff right from mexico w/o even stopping for a check. Thats the official policy and i doubt it has anything to do with what some may thing is the obvious reason why it has caught up.