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Canadian $--don't frighten the tourists

From: Kent Finley <bhr4@hg.uleth.ca>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:21:33 MST
Subject: Canadian $--don't frighten the tourists
To: love-hounds@gryphon.com
Sender: owner-love-hounds

>The Single File video--found this for Canada$ $16.99 and $17.99
>at several stores in Montreal incl. HMV superstore (the lower price)--
>probly shoulda bought it.  Didn't.  Dearborn Music near Detroit
>had this for over US$20. (a Canadian $ is US$1.33)
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the kind of conversion that causes air disasters--like saying there are
2.2 kilograms in a pound, you have it backwards.  A US$ is worth about $1.33 
Canadian, possibly more.  That makes the CDN$ worth about US$0.75.

Please don't scare the tourists!  :-)

Peace,

Kent