The Canadians are coming!

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: tdpark
We are inundated with canadian who come to shop and since our currency is in the tanks...


I live just a few blocks from the tunnel between Canada and Detroit. Even when the US dollar was $1.60 Canadian (just a few years ago), many of us for whom a trip to the states was not a long one would still do most of our shopping over there; never mind now that our currencies are near parity!

The number of Americans (Who really like throw money around! Have any of you ever been *tipped* by a Canadian? We don't throw money around so much...) who come *here* to Canada, however, has really (really) dropped off. This does not count all of the 19 and 20 year olds who flock here in droves every weekend from a 400 mile radius to enjoy our lower legal drinking ages and considerably more liberal laws regarding adult entertainment/ services and marijuana.

 

[nick3501]

FYI, our police don't *actually* wear traditional red uniforms or ride horses. Its regular uniforms, guns,radios,handcuffs lights and sirens. I say this because it always seems the Americans are disappointed when they travel here and don't see any red Canadian police

 

[jcwit]

Good Grief they don't look like Sgt. Preston and have a husky dog named King?

 

[d00df00d]

The ones in the red uniforms are the "Mounties" a.k.a. the RCMP a.k.a. the federal police. Equivalent to the FBI in the US. The red uniform is their dress uniform. You would no more see them wearing that on the job than you would see a US marine storming a beach in dress blues.

 

[jcwit]

Oh, and they don't carry that little whistle around their neck?

 

[d00df00d]

Nope.

I know... I didn't want to believe it at first, either. Seeing the RCMP squad car containing two people who looked like regular cops, with an automatic weapon mounted in the driver's footwell, was a rude awakening.

 

[nick3501]

some provinces have a contract with the RCMP to do their provincial policing (much like state police) Ontario and Quebec have their own provincial police forces, and obviously regions/towns/cities will often have their own police force. but no goofy red uniforms! haha

another interesting fact,while im blabbing on about police... pretty much ALL police cars in the united states and canada are manufactured here in Ontario. Yes, the crown victoria, the dodge charger and the chev impala are all Canadian built cars.

 

[crinkles]

calgary looks like my kind of town but WAY too cold.