Ottawa should start encouraging U.S. firms to move here (Canucks say Obama destroying USA)

Ottawa Citizen ^ | April 23, 2010 | Mark Sutcliffe

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

If only Canada was as blessed with an abundant supply of cheap hispanic labour as the great state of Texico....

[FormerACLUmember]

“How are the Canadians on guns?”

Tons of guns.

Soviet style registration.

No socialist confication. So far.

[Buckeye McFrog]

the Canadian dollar is now at 1:1 parity with the Greenback.
It was quite a bit lower just a few years ago. See what drilling for your own oil will getcha?

[GeorgeTex]

To be fair, there are more people in Texas than Canada. To quote an old commercial, “What do you expect from a country that is almost entirely north of Buffalo?”

[GatorGirl]

Wow, we’re out-socialisting Canada? Yikes!

The article is spot-on.

[jveritas]

Canadians should know their place and how little their economy is compared to us. Canada is a welfare socialist state and dysfunctional on so many levels, much worse than anything we have here. Even with all Obama and his socialists attempts to make us socialists like the Canadians we are not any where near where they are in the destructive socialism and we are going to make sure we will not be a socialist welfare state like Canada because at the end we are going to defeat socialism.

It is true that we are now suffering under the socialist regime but at the end we are Americans and we are going to defeat socialism and prosper in our free market capitalist economy. We are still # 1 and we will remain so for centuries to come.

[FormerACLUmember]

I like your positive attitude.

Thanks for your comments!

[jveritas]

We are Americans. We are always optimistic and positive. That is why we are great.

[Phlap]

"Never in the history of our country have we been ahead of the United States,"

Ouch! Thats got to hurt.

[fanfan]

Ping.

[Clive]

Thanks for the ping, fanfan

[fanfan]

You’re welcome.

This quote, “Their banking is a mess. Their real estate is a mess. Their tax system is a mess. The place is going bankrupt before your eyes.” , is the money quote.

If it makes a few freepers (small f) feel better to bash us while the floor falls out from under them, well, I guess I can’t blame them right now. I’d be angry too, if I was an American.

[fanfan]

Canadians should know their place and how little their economy is compared to us.

Look, I appreciate all the work you did translating Iraqi papers, but you are out of line with that comment.

I should know my place???

A large US corporation , which employs many Americans, is benefiting from purchases by my Canadian company.

We Canadians are not your enemy.

If it gets bad enough, we may, in fact, offer you sanctuary.

[Don W]

WE (Canada) buy more American goods than anyone else. IOW, we are your #1 customer, as you are ours.

Whom should know whose place?

[jveritas]

Please do get me wrong fanfan. I should have said "economic place" rather than just "place". Canada is one of our top ally in the world and as an American I greatly appreciate that Canada is fighting on our side in Afghanistan against the terrorists and Canada is sacrificing blood treasure in this war. Our economic relation with Canada is stronger than any relationship we have with other nation on the planet in fact the US-Canadian trade is larger than any trade between any two other nations on the plant.

However what is wrong with saying that Canadians should know their economic place compared to the US? The US GDP is almost ten times that of Canada. Also Canada is a socialist welfare state, not as bad as Europe but still a socialist welfare state.

[jveritas]

Please see my post # 35 that I just wrote to fanfan.

[SunkenCiv]

Lee, the outspoken director of the MBA program at Carleton University's Sprott School of Business, says for the first time ever, Canada is a much more attractive place to do business than the U.S.

Thanks fanfan!

[Squawk 8888]

The gun registry’s days are numbered. The opposition has been stalling the repeal, but in the meantime the government has been extending the “temporary amnesty” for gun owners who haven’t registered.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[GOPJ]

"The United States has always been richer, more powerful, more aggressive, more dynamic, more successful, more entrepreneurship. And right now they're going off of the cliff.

"Their banking is a mess. Their real estate is a mess. Their tax system is a mess. The place is going bankrupt before your eyes."

Ping