How does the world see Canada

[Gebi10000]

a bit like the britsh, just without the hooligan raceists

 

[Brnin8]

Oh, so just because someone's put on a little weight, you think you can call them the world, eh? How rude of you, sir.

Yeah...that was a terrible joke. I apologize.

I have never been to Canada, though I wouldn't mind visiting some day. I hear good things, especially about the forests and greenery, and the bacon is quite delicious.

If ever you do visit make sure you get a beaver tail, before I'm questioned for eating an animals tail I will explain. They are basically a deep fried pastry covered in sugar and cinnamon although sometimes it has other things on there. Not healthy in the slightest but so delicious.

 

[lukemdizzle]

I have no quarrels with canada

 

[ultimasupersaiyan]

I see it as the promise land! Free health care, always cold, NTSC region so I don't miss out on games, it's cold, clean air... I think. I live in Australia so yeah of course I'd wanna leave here to be there, they pay less for games then here! Screw the $AU99.95-119.95 prices here!

 

[Chameliondude]

From England, i went to canada a couple of times, it was pretty awesome, clean fresh, massive, people were really cool, friendly, in my opinion, i would prefer to go to van couver than most other places, oh and the bears are win, why they havnt been weaponised yet i will never know. oh and maple syrup, wiked

 

[Sulu]

canada should apologize for willingly harboring american fugitives.

You mean the free men escaping from Vietnam? If anything, YOU should be apologizing for causing them to come here in the first place with your stupid little war.

Did you know it's the 21st century? Christ ... pull your head out of your arse. I am referring to canada's policy of not extraditing criminals to the US if they think the death penalty may be applied.

No wonder americans hear so little of canada in the news. Are they even trying to catch up?

Now i can say i really like Canada even more now.
Only heard good about it, a few of my friends were there for exchange.
Cheers from Germany

Over in the UK we don't extradite people to a country if they will face the death penalty as well. Suck on that!

Go Canada

 

[martin's a madman]

I'm from Australia, and we seem to have the same holidays or some shit because we always run into you when travelling. I see you guys as generally a bunch of easy-going drunkards who are a little bit silly - which is exactly how i see australians which would explain why we seem to get along so well. Oh, except that you're a bit colder. We play field hockey, you place ice hockey. Nice place to live but not so exciting a tourist destination.

Depending which way you are looking at it, Australia is Canada of the south or Canada is Australia of the north.

Edit: Also, I am meeting our Prime Minister tomorrow! (Ours meaning, Canada's.)

 

[martin's a madman]

I am from Britain and i say canada is the best country in the world. It is unfortunately overshadowed by its next door neighbor the filthy usa. In short, Canada=where the gods live (they are still British though) America=not the best place ever.(I fear this is all i can say staying in the realms of politeness)
Britain is somewhare in between

OK, Technically we are Semi-British, I mean, Canada is its own country but a lot of Canadians still love that queenie you've got over there.

 

[hazabaza1]

You have maple syrup.
That alone makes you good, you wacky... Canadian stereotype...

 

[GrandmaFunk]

i think Canada has just as many bigots as the US (or anywhere else, really)...they just don't take as much pride in it.

 

[Anacortian]

They overvalue their currency. I live within two hours of the boarder, and I have worked food service. They often do not understand why an American just will not take a Loony at the same value as a greenback.

I hope you realize that US currency is practically the same price as CAD these days.

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=1&From=CAD&To=USD&x=38&y=20

imo, Americans overprice their currency.

You, sir, were ninja'd. Here is what I wrote to respond to the first guy who said pretty much the exact same thing:

The posted market rates for currency are not the real rates. Anybody ever traveling is well aware of this or daft. Anybody under the delusion that some law exists that forces others to exchange currency at the posted rate is wrong. I lived in Canada the scholastic year of '98. At that point the Dollar was 60 cents to the Loony according to any board, but I could never get that rate in Canada. Shop owners devalued foreign moneys the most. If you wanted what they had and could only give them greenback, you just had to take below posted market rate. In the end, the merchant can always refuse your coinage.

By and large, the actual local US-Canadian exchange rate will lean to overvalue whichever is domestic when compared to the posted rate. I had to deal with it when I lived in Canada. I never principally complained, although I did occasionally haggle. Haggling is the same real market at work; posted boards are mere snapshots that become old news the instant they are posted.

While I never argued with this mechanic as a green-moneyed American in Canada, I have seen many Canadians unable to grasp this. I oft experienced Canadian who would place moral and legal imperatives to the exchange rate they looked-up before crossing south. I would be misinformed by these folk that I was required by law to accept the posted rate. They were either deluded, ignorant, or both. More to the point, I have never seen this among Americans.

To answer your question directly. I believe that, if I were in Canada, I would trade the Dollar at parity. In America, I would trade it at 90 cents to the Loony. If a visiting Canadian would not agree with that arrangement, I would not transact with him. At this point, he would see that a Loony or Greenback is only of the value that others will give it. When we cannot come to an agreement, his currency becomes (to me) worthless, but I would and do expect the same service if I were visiting Canada.

 

[Last of the Chinchillas]

Oh, so just because someone's put on a little weight, you think you can call them the world, eh? How rude of you, sir.

Yeah...that was a terrible joke. I apologize.

I have never been to Canada, though I wouldn't mind visiting some day. I hear good things, especially about the forests and greenery, and the bacon is quite delicious.

If ever you do visit make sure you get a beaver tail, before I'm questioned for eating an animals tail I will explain. They are basically a deep fried pastry covered in sugar and cinnamon although sometimes it has other things on there. Not healthy in the slightest but so delicious.

That...that sounds sexy and delicious. Road trip!

 

[cathou]

Oh, so just because someone's put on a little weight, you think you can call them the world, eh? How rude of you, sir.

Yeah...that was a terrible joke. I apologize.

I have never been to Canada, though I wouldn't mind visiting some day. I hear good things, especially about the forests and greenery, and the bacon is quite delicious.

If ever you do visit make sure you get a beaver tail, before I'm questioned for eating an animals tail I will explain. They are basically a deep fried pastry covered in sugar and cinnamon although sometimes it has other things on there. Not healthy in the slightest but so delicious.

That...that sounds sexy and delicious. Road trip!

oh yeah... nothing beats a hot beaver tail after an hour of ice skating outside at -20

 

[Lavi]

Canada "Americas Hat" lol

*Stuffs the money and bacon into the hat*