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=== North America ===
* The Canadian dollar used to have a poor exchange rate with the U.S. dollar
** It isn't funny to Canadian business that export to US, either. Stronger Canadian dollar means that Americans need to spend more for Canadian products; thus the American buying power (of Canadian products) decrease.
*** This put the RPG company "Guardians of Order" out of business. Paying for almost everything in Canadian dollars (they were based in Canada) and being paid for your product in American dollars (it's a much larger market for tabletop gaming) was nice under the older exchange rates. When the US dollar tanked, they wound up taking IIRC a 30% cut in income, and couldn't sell enough to make up the difference.
*** In any case, a flood of fracking oil onto the markets in 2014 sent the "loonie" (Canada's dollar coin has a loon on one side) tumbling. Instead of being more valuable than the US greenback, it was soon trading at seventy cents.
** Despite being pretty close, though, the exchange rate is fodder for humor. It doesn't matter which side of the border you're on, either; it just determines if it's mockery or sarcasm.
** A weak Canadian dollar was part of the reason for the [[NHL]]'s push for expansion into the United States about twenty years ago. Since the Canadian dollar's rise, the NHL is talking about opening a franchise in, possibly, Quebec City (which hasn't had its own team since the Nordiques moved to Colorado in 1995). Even more strident has been the gossip about the Phoenix [[The Scottish Trope|team]] returning to Winnipeg; as of May 24, 2010, the Free Press has carried a front-page article or headline about the Jets' possible return in every single issue published since November 2009.
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