Posted on 01/11/2020 6:01:28 PM PST by NoLibZone
Wonder if they have a high tax on the gasoline to pay for all the free stuff.
Gasoline in Canadia is $5-$6 a gallon.
My understanding is that is to pay for nationalized healthcare which is a cluster.
If I filled up my truck up there it would cost about $170.
That’s still a much better price than gas in europe, which can be up to the equivalent of 4-5 bucks per liter, or just more than a quart.
My aching heart pumps urine for the Canadians... You have habitually voted for the Marxist habit, so go out into the northern wilderness where we can’t hear you complain...
It is not just for the healthcare.
Prices on Amazon.ca for identical natural health products are sometimes double those on Amazon.com. And Canada participates in the Codex which limits which products can be sold there.
CBC is globalist and socialist. Integration? No WAY! We would end up with Canadian rules here. The people there need to pull their heads out of their rear ends and stop voting for leftists.
I don’t know if you can order from them but I’ve found Costco pharmacy in Canada to be the cheapest up here.
It’s “Hark off ya hoser , eh?’’. (My daughter-in-law is from Calgary.)
Each of the Canadian banks has a proprietary “client card” that functions as a debit card. The CA client card is not tied into Visa, Master Card, etc. companies so is non-functional outside CA. You can get a major credit card through the banks, Visa, etc., and it's mandatory for outside the borders use.
When I went to Canada for a year working, it was mandatory for me to import my truck into CA, what a hassle dealing with customs, insurance, title and tag, inspections, drivers license plus surrender my state license plate and driver's license.
Canadian law does not allow US banks to own an affiliate in Canada so I was not able to use a US bank. The US does however allow foreign bank affiliates. I'm still doing my banking with my CA bank via their US affiliate. I guess the reasons are twofold. First, it's so darn easy dealing with them and I have the flexibility to transfer between US and CA $$$ without any fees. Heck, with a phone call or two to set it up, I can have a British bank account as well. This flexibility served me well during my year up north because I still had US bills to pay and US checks to deposit on-line.
Another reason I have kept my CA bank account is that every US bank I've had accounts with have eventually been jerks so I'd move my business elsewhere.
I had an experience buying some some large cartridge filter elements that was way too complicated. I took over operations of a section of a process plant and a few days into it, realized that new filter elements were needed. No filters were on hand and I was less than impressed with the engineer they transferred out.
So, I got the contact info from purchasing for the industrial supplier that turned out to be the only supplier for the eastern half of CA. They were in Montreal and I rang them up. It took a few minutes but finally they got someone with functional English fluency in the line. They were happy to supply me but they were out of stock and would not be available for six weeks. The items were not at all exotic and in the US I could have the filter elements the next day if I needed and I did need them the next day.
I called the US manufacturer direct and verified that they could take a credit card and had a years supply in my hands in 3 days at half the price the CA distributor quoted and this included the CA import taxes. The purchasing folks were quite surprised at all this and tolerated this BS in the name of buy Canadian.
Voting has its consequences........eh?
Poor Canaduh, bereft with a political class who took lessons from their British cousins, and a leader who wishes he was Macron.
So, I can order on ebay dot ca pen refills for less than two bucks, and y’all can’t?
Sounds to me like y’all need to clean house.
Voting has its consequences........eh/eh!
“The CBC is really, really big on high taxes. I wonder why?”
CBC, the government operated broadcaster? That CBC? Hmm...
Oh, CanaDUH.
“Voting has its consequences........eh?”
I imagine if they voted differently, the emptiness in their rectums would take some getting used to...
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