To Canadians. Why do we still get ripped off? AMAZON etc

[The Guardian]

You learn a primary language and then you get some classes in the other one, which rarely amounts to much. A small percentage like me get Immersion in the second language so we're bilingual. I don't recall ever being given any choices though unless you meant my parents, yes they chose to put me in immersion.

TorpedoShockWave, this was a huge discussion a few years ago. In fact I remember a specific quote from one of our big finance people in 1998 or 1999 that when a popular US president comes along (they suggested Giuliani actually who was NYC Mayor at the time) who has good ties with Canada that this and other things might be done.

Bush has managed to alienate a good many Canadians however, partly from how Canada has been treated during his presidency, and partly from how he acts towards the rest of the world... So I would guess it would be a while to repair that damage.

Also I don't think they would want to merge our currencies at par - it's not good for either side, so they'd probably try to get it back down to 80 cents first.