XPost: rec.drugs.psychedelic, rec.drugs.smart, rec.equestrian   
      
   On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:00:52 GMT, "lizzard woman"   
    wrote:   
      
   >"Daniel Pelchat"  wrote in message   
   >news:VXekd.38177$ak3.1430762@wagner.videotron.net...   
   >   
   >| In the last 2 years your dollar lost 35%   
   >| in comparaison to the European and   
   >| Canadian currencies.   
   >   
   >You're telling me.   
   >   
   >1 USD = 0.834 CAD,  a record rate I am told.   
   >   
   >We have hidden the sharp objects from ourselves.   
   >   
   >Signed,   
   >living in Canada and being paid in US   
   >   
      
      
   Sharon,   
      
   It all depends on what you consider a "record." Yes the Canadian   
   dollar is worth a bit more than it has been in the past few years, but   
   there have been plenty of times in the past when the dollar has been   
   worth (nearly) as much, if not more, than the Yankee greenback.   
      
   In 1957 $1 CDN was worth $1.06 U.S. In 1962 it was fixed at $0.925   
   U.S., in 1970 it usually sat around $0.97 U.S.   
      
   Once again in 1974 the Canuck buck was worth more than its southern   
   counterpart, hitting $1.04 U.S. After the Parti Quebecois victory in   
   Quebec the dollar dropped to around $0.85 U.S. By 1986 it sank to   
   $0.69. The dollar continued to go up and down in the following years,   
   but it suffered its lowest value against the American dollar, $0.6237   
   U.S., in 2001 although the next year it slipped slightly below that   
   point -- $0.6184 U.S -- before the close of the trading day.   
      
   The current value, is about the highest in roughly ten years, which I   
   don't really consider long enough for "record" status.   
   --Vic   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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