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Originally Posted by Tempest
It started well before Harper and in fact he's had shit all to do with it.. It's been the US war in Iraq almost exclusively and to some extent the reduction of the deficit by the liberals over the last 10+ years.
If you look at the exchange rate graph, from the day Bush announced they were going to war in Iraq, the exchange rate started to drop. As the war has continued and the US economy has grown worse etc., the war has brought on the demand for oil from other places, like Alberta.. Which has improved our economy... So we've been double hit with our economy improving and theirs going down... Fuck me....
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You're partly right. Remember however that you live in BC which isn't the "real world" for Canadians. You need to be in Ont or QC to know what's really going on in Canada. hehehe..
Harper is doing a great job with Canada/Quebec relations, which in turn eventually creates an atmosphere of confident spending, driving the economy in the right direction. Couple that with some nice Paul Martin economics from the past and Geo W blowing the American bank and you have a strong Canadian dollar.