Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
I hope Harper manages to cling on. He won't pass any kind of economic stimulus so if he continues not to Canada can act like a control experimant to compare with all the other economies that did.
It seems that as the US goes, so goes Canada. US goes into a recession, so Canada does. US recovers, things get better for Canada. I think that is why Harper waits to act, because acting independantly of the US would be foolish. Of course, the opposition parties come up with their own self serving spin on this, regardless of what the truth is.

I don't know what other countries are like, but the Canadian Financial industry has always been heavily regulated, so the control group theory may not be relevant. Joe's Bank and Grille would never fly, nor would company names like fannie mae and freddie mac