Canadian $ worth more than US $

Prices have always been quite high in Canada...probably the taxes to pay for the social programs....VAT....etc. So stuff never was "cheap" compared to the US.

I remember 1usd = 1.60 cdn Those were great days!!!!
Time is a strange thing....doesn't seem long ago....LOL! Less than 10 years, for sure.

Last Edited by SPUD on 04/06/2010 12:35 PM

This is not good for the company I work for, we import most of our head and tail lights to the US for GM, Ford, and Chrysler.

It will really hurt business for us, and a lot of other Canadian companies. Canada manufactures a lot of goods for the US market.

The banks charge to convert, also...so if you take a $100us bill to the bank and get canadian dollars...you will get 96. something in exchange....or worse!
I think wire transfers are the cheapest to convert...usually.

Now, when will we start seeing products that come in through the port of Vancouver at the same price the US gets?? Never as usual.. they've taken a liking to raping us all these years, of course they won't stop. We pay almost 33% more for our vehicles up here.

I'm guessing that's more to do with import / sales / other taxes than exchange rates though.

Our Master are playing GAMES with US like the OLD TIME !!!

Entk!!!

It's not run by a bunch of corporate whores I guess.

We pay almost 33% more for our vehicles up here.

They don't last near as long as they do down here, either...bad winters.

You take a excellent shape 10-15 year old vehicle up north and people are amazed it's in such good shape....LOL
Look...it still has a frame!!!!

Last Edited by SPUD on 04/06/2010 12:53 PM

The Canadian currency is not as valuable as the US. Also gasoline will never be $4.00/gallon. It will never happen

Interesting...pretend he isn't wearing a mask....


Obama did say something about he wouldn't mind paying $7 a gallon.

ALSO.....cigarettes were $8-10 a pack years ago in Canada...

If you are a moderate smoker and smoke 2-3 packs a day....that just aint right!

Compared to some who smoke up to 5 packs a day...if they are still alive.

Last Edited by SPUD on 04/06/2010 01:01 PM

You never mind paying a little extra if you can easily afford it. But I'll bet you the people struggling to eat day to day will mind paying $7 a gallon.

Yeah, but the Dow is OVER 11,000! Rite guys?
If we could get that dollar down to CAD 0.50, it'd be like... 20,000... Rite? That's like WAY BETTER than 1998, rite?

When the fools finally figure out the Fed prints money illegally they will all realize the US dollar is worth about 7 cents.

That size is almost always around that price - they get you on the 1L & 2L which costs almost as much.

I live mostly in Niagara Falls and this past long weekend, the weather was GORGEOUS. There were lots of tourists but almost no US plates - normally about half are from the US.

It's probably also the passport regs that were brought in last May but it's rare to see anything but the odd NY plate or maybe a Florida plate - which is usually a Canadian snowbird, not a Floridian.

The CAD is tied to the price of oil more than the inverse ratio some people claim there is with the USD.

As soon as oil prices crash, so will the CAD. If the CAD climbs to what it did in late 07, when it reached almost $1.15, I'll probably go load up on USD.

Yes. This is part of the large scale plan.

It should be but it isn't. Every single day there are tanker trucks loaded with Canadian fuel crossing the border into USA, yet it is cheaper there than here.

WHEN OBAMA STOPS BOWING, US DOLLAR WILL WORTH MORE.

The reason US dollar is down because Obama is bowing every day to foreign leaders.

We pay about $1 per litre here in Vancouver, sometimes 1.10. A litre is slight less than a quart, so that works out to about $4.50/gallon. Never say never!

Will US dollar worth more IF OBAMA BOWs to CAnada's premier tomorrow????

It's actually the CAD which is getting stronger.

The AUD and CAD are currencies which rely heavily on the commodities they export, their currencies rise along with commodity-prices.

The US dollar is also losing value but if you look at the EUR or the GBP right now you'd see that it's actually a US dollar friendly year... So far..

there is nothing illegal about printing money.

trying to focus anger away from the bush admin who caused the entire mess. On purpose.

PHEW!!!

1 CAD = 0.998 USD

That had me worried for a bit there

Dollars in both countries are worth exactly as much as TPTB wants them to be worth, nothing more nothing less. There is a long story but that was my findings.

Thats why gas prices fell 10 cents today..

The US Fiat dollar is sliding down a slippery slope and gaining speed.

Or if you are a Canadian living in another country. That strong Cdn$ is great stuff....

;)

mexican peso is pretty stable vis a vie the US$.

Yee Haaaa

We still don't want to go to your country since it's a big police state.

Gas jumped 20 cents here today...not all the stations have followed, yet. I'm in the south, pretty much.
I need to check the threads and see what happened in the world today.

Last Edited by SPUD on 04/06/2010 08:28 PM