03-02-2012, 02:06 PM
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I'm all for an influx of good looking blonde haired, blue eyed women to the Canadian gene pool. Sign them up!
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03-02-2012, 02:30 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by geos
Just hopefully the ship carrying a billion $20's doesn't go down in the North Atlantic...
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Pssh all they need to do is print a single trillion dollar bill, then they can just fit the money in a guy's wallet and ask for change later.
Edit: Also, since we're talking about Greenland as well, I'd just like to throw out there that the spelling of Greenland should be changed to Groenland as per their native tongue, and that we pronounce it the way it's spelled, mainly because it makes me giggle.
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03-02-2012, 02:55 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by geos
It's not really our choice anyway, any country could adopt our currency if they really wanted to. There isn't really anything we could do about it. They'd just start circulating Canadian dollars.
It is interesting that a foreign country would be interesting in adopting the loonie when it's far less liquid than the USD or Euro, and is tied directly to oil prices (which Iceland isn't really an exporter of).
That said, it doesn't hurt us in anyway. Go for it if they want to.
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Incorrect. Did Dalton Mcguinty tell you this?
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03-02-2012, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by trumpethead
Incorrect. Did Dalton Mcguinty tell you this?
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Actually VERY correct. The recent correlation of CAD/WTI is -0.91, which is crazy correlated.
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03-02-2012, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by trumpethead
Incorrect. Did Dalton Mcguinty tell you this?
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You can't get a more correct correlation in the financial world.
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03-02-2012, 03:13 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brotato
Actually VERY correct. The recent correlation of CAD/WTI is -0.91, which is crazy correlated.
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You do know that "tied directly" does not = "crazy correlated" right??
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03-02-2012, 03:22 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
You can't get a more correct correlation in the financial world.
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Last time I checked the Cdn dollar wasn't pegged to WTI price. Thus, there is no "direct tie". I never suggested there isn't a correalation between the two.
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03-02-2012, 03:39 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Speaking of which, can we get rid of the term "Dollar" and replace it with "Loonie?" I want to have 20 loonie bills instead of 20 dollar bills.
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Are you proposing a fowl based currency? An exclusively duck-centred monetary system?
A 20 loonie bill would leave no room for the Queen, it has to have a picture of 20 loons.
The world will think we've gone Daffy.
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03-02-2012, 03:44 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kelowna
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Do it. Then annex the Turks and Caicos!
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03-02-2012, 03:52 PM
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Correct me if I am wrong. Does Turks and Caicos not use Canadian currency?
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03-02-2012, 03:54 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by pylon
Correct me if I am wrong. Does Turks and Caicos not use Canadian currency?
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You are wrong, they use US$
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03-02-2012, 03:55 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Yay! That's all the incentive me and Rico need to go visit. Hot springs and volcanoes - here we come!
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03-02-2012, 03:55 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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Originally Posted by pylon
Correct me if I am wrong. Does Turks and Caicos not use Canadian currency?
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TBQH I'm not sure but as it stands now I think they are still British subjects. It really wouldn't surprise me if they use the pound or US Dollar. Werent we close to annexing them 10 years ago or so?
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03-02-2012, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by pylon
Correct me if I am wrong. Does Turks and Caicos not use Canadian currency?
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I think they asked Canada to annex them once, but Cretien or Mulroney or someone turned them down. Bummer.
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03-02-2012, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by annasuave
I think they asked Canada to annex them once, but Cretien or Mulroney or someone turned them down. Bummer.
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If that's true Mulroney and/or Chretien need a swift boot to the coin purse.
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03-02-2012, 04:03 PM
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I think we need to make Cuba a province first.
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03-02-2012, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Locke
I think we need to make Cuba a province first.
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We'd have awesome hockey teams AND awesome baseball teams
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03-02-2012, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Zulu29
We'd have awesome hockey teams AND awesome baseball teams
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I'm more about the Rum and Cigars and maybe getting a little dig in on the Southies. 
Not to mention, if we had Iceland and Cuba we could engineer the hottest women in the world!
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03-02-2012, 04:36 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by annasuave
I think they asked Canada to annex them once, but Cretien or Mulroney or someone turned them down. Bummer.
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It was Mulroney and it wasn't a bad decision. The cost of taking on a 3rd world country and providing them with the social net that they would be entitled to as Canadians would have been a big burden.
Paul Martin actually tried to re-open the cause but at that time, things had improved enough in Turks and Caicos that they were no longer interested.
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03-02-2012, 04:42 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by valo403
Sadly, the presence of these in Iceland is highly overstated. They have some, but much to my chagrin not nearly as many as I had allowed myself to believe they would have,.
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You need to check them out without their parka's on.
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We'd have awesome hockey teams AND awesome baseball teams
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And awesome strongman competitors.
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