<p>A dream world with more nukes than anyone else.</p>
<p>FTW.</p>
<p>Congratulations Canada for legalizing the stapler!</p>
<p>…just thought I’d throw that out there. (rick mercer, anyone?)</p>
<p>..and the Pound is worth $2.04 against the USD
and the Euro is worth $1.42 against it</p>
<p>but hey, all fiat is is monopoly money or toilet paper, unlike a sound currency medium like gold or silver</p>
<p>If that’s true, why do people use it? Representative money is truly obsolete in the modern world, especially because of the lack of ability to back it up. Most money nowadays is electronic, anyway.</p>
<p>What is this Canada you speak of?</p>
<p>A wholly owned U.S. subsidiary full of oil and trees. There are also Mounties, eh?</p>
<p>That’s just about what Americans think, anyway.</p>
<p>You mean it isn’t?</p>
<p>I’m not saying that.</p>
<p>I’m Canadian, and I can admit that Canada’s economy is highly dependent on America - that’s where we export most (by FAR) of our goods to. I don’t know why other Cdns find it hard to admit that.</p>
<p>But hey! I live in British Columbia where we are also highly dependent on Asia-Pacific countries, so if the rest of Canada goes down with America we might still have a chance! :)</p>
<p>I will one day take over Canada and control all their maple syrup exports muhahahaha!!! lol</p>
<p>“Thereby cutting life expectancies in half”
Pfft. Prove it. Maybe people will just try harder to get jobs. And if you’re going to bring up the fact that life expectancy is shorter in the US, I would like to interject that it’s because of higher crime rates, and not because of a lack of socialized healthcare.</p>
<p>“and allowing the rich to buy the country, literally and figuratively.”
The rich have already bought the country. To believe otherwise is naive.</p>
<p>“Brilliant, eh? In reality, there is no free market.”
Ummm… you know, Smith could have been wrong about that.</p>
<p>“Even Smith admitted that enforced regulatory measures”
I’m all for regulatory measures. They’re good business. Not too many, though. And not too strict.</p>
<p>“and welfare”
Commie.</p>
<p>“were necessary to some extent.”
Is anything really necessary?</p>
<p>“I think the Gilded Age was bad enough.”
I miss the Gilded Age. <em>reverie</em>.</p>
<p>By the way, what’s canada?</p>
<p>All jokes aside, lets examine some of the serious statements made in this thread that are completely false:</p>
<p>“Canada’s economy follows the US economy, ergo if the US tanks so does Canada”</p>
<p>False: In the wake of 9/11, what was one of the few countries that had its economy improve? Canada (another acceptable answer would have been Australia). Historically, Canada’s economy has mirrored that of the US, but it hasn’t been true in the 21st century.</p>
<p>“This is more due to the US economy tanking than the Canadian economy booming”</p>
<p>False: Look at the CDN$ vs other major world currencies, The Swiss Franc, British Pound, Euro, Yen, Australian Dollar etc. it’s trading at or near historical highs vs all of them. Canada was not hit by the early 2000’s recession, not hit by the 2007 credit crisis, unemployment is at a 30 year low and it has run a budget surplus for 10 straight years. It is also one of the few countries in the world that is paying off the principal of it’s national debt. If there are any signs that the Canadian economy is going to tank, please point them out to me because I don’t see any.</p>
<p>Canadian penguin oil supplies are dwindling. The canadian monarch should provide penguin subsidies and create a lumber-for-penguins program with antarctica.</p>
<p>Canada has the NWT ;)</p>
<p>Not hit by the early 2000’s recession?</p>
<p>Well…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say so, exactly…</p>
<p>Just want to add a few notes to balance out some amusingly baseless comments some friends have posted:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Canada is one of the few industrialized nations that still boasts a surplus in revenue since 9/11. Financially, the nation is stress-free because the gov’t was able to pay off all national debt years ago (comparing to the current $8.3 trillion and rising U.S. national debt)</p></li>
<li><p>In terms of living standards, Canada’s GDP per capita is $31,250 USD, not so far from the U.S. figure of $38,000 USD (International Monetary Fund, April 2005-April 2006, <a href=“http://www.imf.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.imf.org</a>)</p></li>
<li><p>Canada is also the United States’ biggest trading partner, meaning our economic relation is mutually beneficial, and we couldn’t live without one or the other. The most important importer of crude oil to the United States is not good old Saudi Arabia, but Canada, from the vast sand oil fields of Alberta (Energy Information Administration, October 2, 2007, <a href=“http://www.eia.doe.gov)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.eia.doe.gov)</a>. American oil prices would most likely double if Canada suddenly decided to stop exporting oil to America, and to…say…China instead (which is already turning into a reality as the Canadian gov’t is rapidly expanding oil exports and all other sectors of trade with China in recent years).</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I still say Canada is a myth.</p>
<p>^ Pwn./*********/</p>