Dharma Singh wrote:
> 2007/12/23, Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Nah, he means Canadian dollars. They're the same thing these days. ;-)
>>
Garth was making a little joke. For decades, the Canadian and US dollars
were always very close to each other in value. The the C$ took a
protracted dive into the netherworld. As the US$ has swooned over the
last couple of years, the two have once again become very close in value.
Unfortunately, it was the US$ that slid down, rather than the C$ that
climbed.
> Somewhere I read you can't use Canadian$ in the USA? And I don't know
> whether you can use US$ in Canada.
> Please enlighten me.
>
They are completely separate currencies of separate countries that
happen to share a long border and a language. Eh?
For many years before the C$ fall, many border and vacation businesses
would accept them interchangeably, but that was strictly their own
accommodation for business. Neither has any legal statues in the other
country.
> I know the Scottish & English Pound have the same value. But you can't
> use Scottish Pounds in England, but use the English ones in Scotland.
>
The colonialization lives on, I see. Even though I once did a lot of
business with people in both countires, i never did entirely understand
the details of the political situation/connection. In any case, it is
much more intertwined, emotional and complex than the relationship of
the US and Canada, as sovereign nations connected by treaties and such.
As a practical matter, there are a number of areas along the border
where you'd have a hard time telling which side you were on based on
geography, weather, speech/accents, etc. Then, of course, there's
Quebec. I love Montreal, perhaps in part because it is so NOT like the
US. :-)
Moose
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