35 Replies to “It’s so horrible living in Canada.”

  1. Bobby Fife and Craig Oliver must be in tears, saddened that can’t do their usual snicker & sneer routine about that eeeeeeeevil Harper ruining the country.

  2. Get rid of the corrupt gun grabbing Libereno’s, put in a Harper government and within a few short years – BANG!
    Top of the Global food chain.

  3. Yes of course Harper is so fascist; that he went to visit the all those Jewish folks in Israel and actually supported their state!
    Oh the horror…the ‘apartheid Israeli’ epithet is falling on deaf ears; whatever will the freakish left-o-cracy have to succumb to next?
    These people are fundamentally reality challenged because the facts don’t fit their narrative.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  6. This ranking will only improve as the world comes to realize that the US has a Third World kleptocracy running it, where crony capitalism is the only kind permitted.

  7. PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
    IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED
    We, the undersigned citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT : as individual Citizens of Canada WE do NOT enjoy the protection of “PROPERTY RIGHTS” within the Constitution of Canada ! hence, THE LAW of Canada!
    THEREFORE: Your petitioners call upon Parliament to forthwith, incorporate and entrench FOREVER , individual “PROPERTY RIGHTS” INTO THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA.
    I suspect all FIRST NATIONS women living on Band Reserves would sign onto such a petition, eh?

  9. I agree, property rights, get rid of all gun registry stuff, and stop the lightbulb ban!!

  11. The CAD is now a petro-dollar. It is sensitive to the energy sector (if Keystone is nixed, CAD will in all likelihood head toward 0.75 USD.

  12. What would the corruption index be without the Quebec construction industry?
    How much do Alberta’s crown prosecutors earn? “personal safety” could apply to anyone sucking the teat of public dollars? I doubt it.
    http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Alberta+government+salary+list+facing+legal+challenge/9449471/story.html
    The same types of folks, public servants, found that the Premier of Alberta’s husband having a giant government contract wasn’t any problem…
    The recent senator fiascos in Ottawa…
    The national debt of Canada, as it is lower than so many other countries is far too high. I don’t think we should carry a debt if not in wartime.
    Property rights? what property rights? Freedom of expression? sure, as long as you agree with the liberals of Canada.
    It only looks alright if there’s a neighbor that’s doing so much worse than us.

  13. The last thing the YouAss needs is a high dollar. This may be the nail in the coffin for their manufacturing, as its been on its death bed for years.
    Looks good on Oblowhard though.

  14. Yes. And Paul in Calgary too.
    PMSH stood up back in 2006 and promised property rights. I’m starting to think that he knew all along that it was one of those things our lefty red and PC pink press corps wouldn’t take him to task on.
    D’ya think Turdo la Doo will raise this broken promise?

  15. In the last election the CPC made something like 94 promises, I can’t remember the exact number but they’re 12 short and have one year left. I’m betting they’ll be able to crow about keeping every promise. Remember the red book?

  16. I bet Joe Clark doesn’t like that. He’s pushing his new book “How Canada Leads” wherein he complains that Harper and the Conservatives are destroying Canada’s international reputation.
    The dweeb still doesn’t get it.

  17. “Prado adds that the U.S. is burdened by what he calls “a negative emotional halo” that has to do with being a world superpower.”
    Given that statement,I wonder if Canada has really won anything besides the approval of those who see us as an untouched and undeveloped wilderness, easy to browbeat into accepting almost anything.
    And why IS our Buck at 89 cents U.S.?
    In the eyes of other organizations, we won the “dinosaur” award several times,so I don’t put too much stock in the approval of these guys.

  18. And Premier Wall doesn’t mind, as, according to his news comment, the lower dollar brings revenue into the provincial coffers.

  19. According to the OECD and the Big Mac index the CDN $ has been over valued for about five years. If you read the Purchasing Power Parity studies this becomes obvious. However, part of the overvaluation has been due to the reality that Harper and company have done a much better job than almost anybody else in the G8 or the G20. Perception that the US economy is beginning to recover is causing currency traders to bet on the USD to the detriment of almost every major currency.

  21. And why, it is asked, is our dollar at 89 cents.
    We could issue a new denomination, a new dollar equal to 10 old dollars, then our dollar would be worth 8 dollars and 90 cents. Would that make you happier? Its all relative.
    Consider the yen, its 1 dollar for 91 yen, yet you don’t expect to be able to buy something that costs 91 dollars here with 1 Canadian dollar while in Japan.

  22. GARY ….SHUT UP!!
    I am upset because our prices do not reflect a weak dollar, I go to the usa I buy things for an actual lower price ,but I actually pay for for that lower price in canadain dollars, a pair of jeans in Montana is 26$ the same pair in Calgary is 50$ and now with the exchange it’s still 26$ in the usa …but now those jeans in Canada are now 60$ or what ever the difference is.
    mean while we have had a massive bumper crop in our farming industry , oil n gas production is at it’s highest rate, we are about to balance the budget in the next fiscal year yet we have a weak dollar? doesn’t make any sence especially compared to a country that has been printing 80 B B B B BILLION DOLLARSS a month for the past three years and has a national debt of almost 20 T T T T TRILLIon dollars has no balanced budget , a jobless rate of 7.5% welfare food stamps unemployment the country is an economic basket case and there dollar is rising against ours ? all signs point to manipulation, bullshit, and corruption in the usa!!

  23. Quite right. At least that’s what’s been happening until recently. The 1000 point drop in the Dow over the past three trading days may bring that to a halt if the downward trend continues. Markets always get nervous as the US gets closer to running out of cash if the debt limit isn’t fixed by the end of the month.
    Another factor is the cash flooding in to buy US bonds over the past several years because, regardless of the apparent weakness of US fiscal structure, every other reserve currency looks worse (except Switzerland, and look what’s happened to the franc over the past five years).
    The Canadian dollar is sinking for one main reason. Canada is a resource-based dollar, and the resource indexes have been sinking or static for the past year or so. Paul also seems unaware of the relative size and efficiencies of the Canada vs US retail markets, but that’s another long story.

  24. Because of the large number of US sourced components in our manufactured product, we were forced to change our CDN customer’s pricing to US dollars.
    Our Canadian customers just got a 10% price increase while our US customers now allow us a larger margin.

  25. I always assumed that the low Canadian dollar was intentional. Lots of Canadian money shows up here in Vermont when the Loonie is high (if you still call it that) and I assumed that you govt did its best to ensure that the flow went the other way.

  27. Joe Clark is a card carrying Liberal and always has been. He is heavily connect the Rideau Institute and that turn Steven Staples. Look it up.

  28. The first two links are all about perception and reputation and are completely subjective. Why would we place weight on these “reports”? We’re not even the least corrupt as the tweet suggests, but 10th (down from 9th in 2012, 6th in 2010, 8th in 2009, 9th in 2008, 9th in 2007). Come now, if we’re going to brag about something let’s brag about something which can be measured and which we’re clearly #1.
    Re. the debt/GDP ratio, I can’t find a resource which names us #1 or even in the top ten. Where’s the link? Maybe I’m reading these charts wrong, but we’re not even in the top 10: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt

  29. paul in calgary “So why is our dollar tanking compared to the usa’s green back?””
    So we can sell Ontario’s manufactured goods despite every effort by the Ontario government to make them non-competitive.

  30. paul in calgary >
    “So why is our dollar tanking compared to the usa’s green back?”
    You’re absolutely right, {manipulation and corruption}, Petro dollars and printing presses.
    Included of course is foreign outsourcing, along with high Union wages verses imported third world sweatshop labor.

  31. Manny, call your office, have them google “lowest debt to GDP”.
    Tell them to click on the first hit, or any hit.

  32. @anonymous coward
    Funny you mentioned Costco because that’s what I was using as an example I just bought Levi’s red tab 505 from there they were 27$ a pair that same pair at the Levi’s store is about 50$ but if you went to a Levi’s store in the USA they would be about 27$ and probly 15$ at Costco .
    Something is definatly not right gold is down silver is down our dollar is down , USA ar is up along with unemployment ,welfare,national debt, ect ect . We are a out to have northern gateway pipeline and kxl pipelines approved and we are going into the shitter? Come on man. That just doesn’t t happen. If paper is up the hard assets are down or vice versa . This is being controlled or manipulated by someone or a groups of people. My theory is USA Canada make a deal tank our dollar but approve all the pipelines so there oil is still a lot cheaper to buy from Canada this way all the blood sucking politicians look like heros .

  33. Tim, the Cdn government has to pay lip service to protecting the loonie (yep, it’s still called that), but in reality they enjoy watching it go down, especially against the US$, which is our major trading partner.
    Reasons:
    1 – Low loonie cuts down on cross-border shopping, as the extra 15% plus all the time required cuts out a lot of savings. (so helps Cdn retailers, who provide tons of min wage jobs)
    2 – Low loonie raises prices for resources (almost all are priced in US$, and that includes agricultural exports like wheat),
    and hence raises income for oil/metals/farming industries.
    3 – Low loonie, as some pointed out above, helps Ontario manufacturers overcome insane energy policies of Lieberals
    4 – Low loonie encourages more foreign investment, as Cdns too leery/scared of losing money to fund development
    So, while the Finance Minister and the Governor of the Bank of Canada will both say they want a strong loonie, the reality is they don’t, and they will happily talk – but just talk, mind you – it up whilst it slowly goes down.

  34. Paul, you’re forgetting several things.
    1. Currency relative valuations are set by the trillions of dollars of trades in currencies each day. What the currency traders have been saying for the past 12 months or so is that they see the US economy rebounding (house prices up, unemployment falling). They see Canada with low economic growth, stagnant resource prices. Hence the Cdn$ is falling.
    2. The total sum of Cdn dollars is trivial compared to the total sum of US dollars in circulation. A minor hiccup in US dollar trades means a massive thump for us.
    3. The country holding most of the US dollars offshore is China. With its currency linked to the US dollar, it has a vested interest in ensuring that the US dollar does not lose value, as it holds hundreds of billions in US government bonds.
    4. KXL isn’t going to get approved while Obama’s in office, and various US groups are shoveling millions into blocking Northern Gateway. The lawsuits filed last month alone guarantee this thing will be tied up in courts for years. There’s no conspiracy to keep the Cdn dollar down, but there is a conspiracy among various environmental lobbies and various parts of the international oil business to ensure that the pipelines don’t get built.
    5. It doesn’t matter what the relative value of the Cdn dollar is. All trades in oil everywhere in the world are priced in US dollars. So the US is protected against changes in currency values. No one else in the world is.

  35. “1. Least Corrupt”
    Think how off the charts Canada would be without Quebec and Ontario’s Libs’ record.

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