My views on the dollar, with help from W.P. Kinsella
The one constant through my lifetime has been the knowledge that the U.S. dollar could kick the shit out of the Canadian dollar.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. This currency dominance over Canada is part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.
For the first time in years, I looked up the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar.
They are pretty darn close. In fact, depending on your local foreign exchange bank, the Candian dollar may be stronger. What would Terence Mann say about that?
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What does this mean for the prices printed on the back of books: $9.00 US / $13 CAN ???
It means the Canadians are being ripped off.
Being a nice Canadian boy, I've always described it to Americans as "Pretty much like America, but slightly cleaner and with less guns and money." Maybe the money part's changing. You can keep the guns, tho.
Yup. According to the trusty universal currency converter, that book should cost no more than $10.
You'd think they could use that extra $2 to lower the taxes for professional athletes in Canada.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the Raptors?!
Don't forget that Terence Mann wasn't a character in W.P. Kinsella's book. In the book, the kidnapped author was J.D. Salinger.
I didn't remember that the character in the book was J.D. Salinger. But it's been 16 years since I read it.
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