Canadians Pour Over Border As Dollar Stays High

City News (Toronto) ^ | Friday November 9, 2007 | CityNews.ca Staff

[Riodacat]

Canadians Pour Over Border As Dollar Stays High

What?
Our "made in China" junk is cheaper than your "made in China" junk??

[Riodacat]

Besides, Canada can be an oil exporter, if her politicians (Stelmach & co) will stop behaving like Venezuelans.

Please don't embarrass the rest of us Americans by spouting your ignorance and stupidity.
Almost all of Canada's oil is already exported to the United States - so you could almost refer to Canada as an "oil exporter"..

[fanfan]

What? Our "made in China" junk is cheaper than your "made in China" junk??

Ah! Theres the rub! Our Chinese goods are as cheap as yours now!

[fhayek]

I live in Buffalo and have contact with quite a few retailers. Without exception, they are all stating that Canadians are greatly inflating their monthly sales figures. Some meet their monthly sales goals by the middle of the month. Canadians have a strong dollar AND they avoid their nasty GST tax that Canadians put on everything (to pay for National Health Care - nice irony there).

Canadians come over in old clothes, buy new ones in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, change in their cars - and leave the trash in the parking lots. No duty on clothes that they have on their backs, you see. I think we are seeing the beginnings of the Ugly Canadian.

[fanfan]

You guys have a point.

Canadian girls are pretty cute, and in a world wide survey, were voted as having the best legs.

;-)

[VOA]

bump

[lormand]

I remember visiting Europe in the mid 80's when the dollar was at it's stongest against European currency.

I was getting 3.2 German Marks per 1 Dollar. We stayed in 4 and 5 star hotels, drove all over Western Europe burning as much diesel as the Benz would guzzle and still came back with change.

I also remember financial stories about how exports were suffering badly because of the strong dollar. It would be nice to see "Made in America" back on the shelves at Walmart again.

[fanfan]

Its cheaper in the States because you avoid the federal and provincial goods and services tax. Your money goes further just by driving from Ontario to New York. Ontarians head over to Buffalo because its close to Toronto. Detroit is a four hour drive away.

There is a table at the link that I am unable to post.
They are making people pay the taxes and duty when they bring the products into Canada, as they should.

With NAFTA, we shouldn't have to pay duty, but if a business does, a consumer should have to as well.

[familyop]

" Please don't embarrass the rest of us Americans by spouting your ignorance and stupidity. Almost all of Canada's oil is already exported to the United States - so you could almost refer to Canada as an "oil exporter".."

Don't embarrass yourself by flaming conservatives and cheerleading for commies. What the Albertan politicians did was wrong, and they have been behaving like Venezuelans. They shouldn't have tricked the companies into investing so much in the oil sands before raising the taxes/rent so much.

Canada can have a nice economy, if she stops acting like a socialist enemy. Allow the oil companies to keep a little capital, and avoid scaring investors and looking for a way to peg the currency.

[fanfan]

Revise practices to work with the naturally growing loonie

That would be both of our options.

;-)

[fanfan]

Every cloud has a silver lining, eh?

[familyop]

And BTW, I very likely know much more about Canadian history and politics than you do—especially if you were born there, newbie. Avoid spouting off with your personal insults.

[BfloGuy]

The poor woman actually thinks she will save money.

Um, when's the last time you went shopping in Canada?

Prices for consumer goods are typically 10% to 20% higher there even before their 15% sales tax kicks in.

It's quite worth the trip for bargain-hunting Canadians -- they wouldn't make it otherwise.

[fanfan]

Bored with him?

No, actively disappointed.

All ego, no performance.
Feh.

[fanfan]

Dirtbag.

;-)

[Joe Boucher]

Same guy is still coming here,
wearing the same banana hammock little bathng suit.
On the same beaches.

And very few of these invaders pick crops when they get here.

[Joe Boucher]

You are right,
I reserve the right to tease them all though.
Nearly always good folks and they don’t get on the welfare rolls.
And they do eventually go home.
Also they pay my taxes as here we have no state income tax.

[familyop]

"That would be both of our options."

...agreed! There's no way that our US leadership can keep the dollar up without very seriously hurting the North American economy (as Canada and the USA are very tied together in economics and defense). Our importers who concentrate on cheap, common goods won't always get what they want.

As the economy goes on either side of the border, it will go on both sides. The adjustments toward increasing manufacturing will be rough, but we could do it, IMO. Oil consumption and wages will continue to increase in large, once-third-world countries (China, India, and all).

[fanfan]

I think we are seeing the beginnings of the Ugly Canadian.

Yes, the worst of our rifraf, (is that a word?), looking for a deal. Good luck with them.

[Jorge]

Yes. I remember the Ontario license plates everywhere.
Couldn't believe they would drive all the way down there every year.

I nearly died just driving from Philly.