Do people seriously believe that? That's crazy. I generally pay with my credit card that has no foreign transaction fees so I don't have to deal with stores trying to rip me off on the exchange rate
Canadian dollar will drop to 59 cents US in 2016, Macquarie forecasts
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Do people seriously believe that? That's crazy. I generally pay with my credit card that has no foreign transaction fees so I don't have to deal with stores trying to rip me off on the exchange rate
PeskyToaster
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Ok guys slow down. It was just a joke, I think Canada is cool.
Roland_Gunner
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Ask anyone in Europe what the result of integrating currencies and not financial institutions is. It would be crazy for Canada to sign up for a complete union since they wouldn't have any more influence than California if they joined the US. Unless each province was a separate state, which as a Democrat I'd love.
Tal Shiar Agent
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That's what I am hoping for in the long run.
They could even keep the parliamentary system. Just need to ditch the monarchy.
49 cents by 2017. Do it Trudeau.
Welcome to the cultural experience of Canada, where change is actually valuable enough to spend!
And welcome to the US's inevitable future of dollar coins.
Dusk Soldier
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No fucking thank you. US businesses bribe politicians left and right, and they don't even have free healthcare yet.
Plus the monarchy doesn't even have any power in England. Let alone here.
Pancake Mix
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Not to mention that that is dependent on the fact that those manufacturing jobs pay less in US (read, real, more stable) dollars than if the Canadian dollar were higher. That's bad for workers because the price of everything goes up as the Canadian dollar takes a slide. 59 cents is brutal for a developed country whose currency had an intra-day high over 51 cents US higher back in November 2007.
So if you've got a bunch of change in your pocket, and a $20 bill, for a purchase of $3.78 you'd rather hand over a $20 than two $2 coins?
killer rin
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And turn into a literal Greece, no thank you. If we adopt the US Dollar, we loose the ability to effectively save ourselves in times of economic hardship like this. Trudeau is going to have to make the Bank of Canada print money to get us out of this... imagine him needing to beg the United States Treasury to do the same at the amounts we need.
Here is the thing though. Our Manufacturing Sector is never going to come back, at least at the frequency it once was. Because no matter how bad our dollar gets, it will always be cheaper overseas, and by the time it isn't; we'll we will have moved on to it being almost completely automated
No thanks, we don't want to have to deal with Raging Gun-a-holics, Republicans and politicians being bought by money at insane rates. Not to mention the no Public Healthcare or their being a complete lack of the enhanced social systems we use daily. Don't worry though, we will bounce back.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Oh sweet summer child
PanicFreak
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Maybe I should go to Canada....
In my experience US people don't even use 1$ coins...
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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I have only heard this from Canadians. Truth of the matter is Toronto is a lot closer to New York in terms of culture and diversity than it is with Alberta. Or New York is closer to Toronto than it is to Montgomery, AL. Same with Vancouver and Seattle. I don't know why it's so hard for Canadians to accept this.
ForgottenProdigy
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RIP. We're slowly approaching Zimbabwe levels of worth.
Mechanized
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Yeah so, I guess I'll be buying a car in the next few weeks instead of waiting till next year. Yeesh.
You get to keep most of your laws
Liberty4all
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By Alberta do you mean Calgary or something?
In any case the politics of Canada is completely different from the politics of the States. It makes a significant difference to the culture.
Having worked retail in Washington State, it goes both ways. There were always TONS of Canadians pissed that we didn't take Canadian dollars. "But they take Canadian money at cahsco!"
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AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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I meant the province of Alberta, but sure Calgary or Edmonton, whatever floats your boat. I am sure you understood the point I was making.
Are you trying to suggest that the culture in Vancouver is closer to Charlottetown than it is to Seattle due to the politics in the country being the same? Or New York is closer to Jackson than it is to Toronto because of the same reason?
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I fucking hate it when the dollar is low. The prices of things has started to become absurd.
DarkJediKnight
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My body is ready....
BarringGaffner
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damn I have a trip to Hawaii in March and it's just getting worse.
Should I take out US cash now?
Should I take out US cash now?
I've got a couple of those. I've also got a Susan B. Anthony dollar, and one of those newer ones with the Statue of Liberty.
The only way Americans are ever going to start using dollar coins is if the government phases out the dollar bill. But we know if you guys do that there will be armed protests on Capitol Hill.
Canadians are different from each other culturally on a regional level. But, on a political and ideological level, we're fairly distinct from the US.
AlphaTwo00
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It's the "all in" plus putting my mortgage and my watch on the table when you had a pair of 8s, and the other guy ended up with a full house.
Keystone XL gutted quite a bit.
It's funny the difference a couple of years can make. I went to grad school in the states just as the dollar was at its peak. Actually managed to save some money in the currency exchange. I wouldn't have been able to handle the tuition at 59 cents. Would've nearly doubled the cost of the degree.
Well, at least you care enough to wish us well hahaha
also, we are witnessing the glorious return of the Northern Peso
What would strippers do?
Wear fanny packs probably.
Guns and the laws around guns. Healthcare and the laws around healthcare. Drugs and the laws around drugs. Heck, even our free speech laws are different.
The laws and the culture of the land are pretty intertwined in a lot of respects, and on these and many other points, Canada is different than the US.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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Like I said, I only hear that from Canadians. I'm sure there will be non-Canadians who share your opinions, but IRL, I only get that response from canadians.
catpurrcat
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The truth is that for the average middle class individual, there's not a whole hell of a lot of qualitative differences. They're similar feeling countries in many respects. For the less privileged folk, it's night and day.
... and really? I live in California, and if anything, many of the Americans I talk to actually idealize Canada in a way that's approaching unrealistic (admittedly the only reason it comes up at all is because they know I'm Canadian and small-talk is a thing). As for the more conservative parts of America, Canada's healthcare, comparatively wide social safety net, and strict gun control policies are unlikely to be brought up as positives.
Maybe because Americans, by and large, tend to ignore Canada? Canadians, on the other hand, are probably better informed about the US than we are about our own country.
Kuro Madoushi
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I blame all of you who voted for Harper!
even if the other leaders had the charisma of a potato sack
ShinRPGamer
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Jack Layton?
Also the state of our dollar depresses me. I better get used to any possible vacations being within Canada for the rest of the decade.
catpurrcat
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From my exp in Quebec City this year, only 1 person couldn't speak English - cab driver
Everyone could speak English.
Highly recommend as a tourist spot.
Sapiens
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Most people I know blame Layton for the 2006 election that brought in Harper for almost ten years. Man, fuck Jack Layton. The NDP are useless no matter how charismatic a leader they have - but the reason why the Orange Wave was never real was because most centre Canadians saw Layton as untrustworthy.
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