Canada Election 2006

MIGleader · Jan 27, 2006

sumdud said:
1 USD = 1.2 Canadian dollars

I always had this impression that Canada was relatively poor compared to Canada though.....

typo???

My bus drivers get paid $14.50 an hour. Thats more than twice penssylvania minimum wage. 42$ an hour is redicoulous. Those drivers need to be fired and replaced by poor willing to work for less

darth sidious · Jan 27, 2006

MIGleader said:
typo???
My bus drivers get paid $14.50 an hour. Thats more than twice penssylvania minimum wage. 42$ an hour is redicoulous. Those drivers need to be fired and replaced by poor willing to work for less

but you need a special license to drive it !!! the poor usuely dont have that license ( not that they cant drive)

because poor people use bus more then the rich the strike is quite redicoulous

the teacher also went on strike for more money this year you dont see that happening in CAl :roll: LOL

tphuang · Jan 27, 2006

curiously enough, FOX news spent the most time reporting this news out of all the American channels. I guess they just can't resist gloating over a conservative victory over the liberals.

Gollevainen · Jan 28, 2006

but engineers still get paid better than bus drivers.. so golly.. if u come to canada with your civil engg degree... come to alberta, we hire people like crazy. my girlfriend's summer job pay is $24 an hr. and she didn't even graduate yet.. (she's a civil), and my dad gets paid like $100 per hr.. he's a senior civil.

In here i was so exited when i got 7 â‚¬ per hour under table from normal construction work...
Well maybe I shall move to canda after all

sumdud · Jan 28, 2006

but engineers still get paid better than bus drivers.. so golly.. if u come to canada with your civil engg degree... come to alberta, we hire people like crazy. my girlfriend's summer job pay is $24 an hr. and she didn't even graduate yet.. (she's a civil), and my dad gets paid like $100 per hr.. he's a senior civil.

O_O

I should major in Civil instead of Aerospace and then go from Berkeley to Calgary!!!

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Man.... we are really off topic now...........

What'd Harper say he'll do?

T-U-P · Jan 28, 2006

sumdud said:
Man.... we are really off topic now...........

What'd Harper say he'll do?

the only promises i remember is to cut tax by 1% (forgot whether it's income tax or purchasing tax) and also cut the landing fee for immigrants down to $100 (or something like that, didn't pay much attention to him before).

PiSigma · Jan 28, 2006

he said cut the GST by 1% to 6%.. GST = goods and services tax. it's the money added on to everything you buy.. so if something is $100.00, you have to pay $107.00 to get it.

sumdud · Jan 29, 2006

???
I thought the sales tax is different in each county.

You guys still get the tax deduction for each purchase of over $50 right?

tphuang · Jan 29, 2006

PiSigma said:
he said cut the GST by 1% to 6%.. GST = goods and services tax. it's the money added on to everything you buy.. so if something is $100.00, you have to pay $107.00 to get it.

Steven Harper makes too many stupid promises. If we run our government like that, we'd get a 800 billion budget deficit like the Americans.

T-U-P · Feb 2, 2006

PiSigma said:
he said cut the GST by 1% to 6%.. GST = goods and services tax.

GST = goods and services tax??? really? i always thought it means government sales tax... since PST is provincial sales tax.

I thought the sales tax is different in each county.
You guys still get the tax deduction for each purchase of over $50 right?

the sales tax is different in each province, since each province has the power to put PST on top of the GST. the GST is the same in every province tho. so BC has a PST of 7% and canada has a GST of 7%, so the total sales tax in BC is 14%. PST differs from province to province.

there is no tax deduction in canada as far as i know, it's all the same doesnt matter what you buy.

Canada Election 2006

MIGleader

Banned Idiot

darth sidious

Banned Idiot

tphuang

Lieutenant General

Gollevainen

Colonel

sumdud

Senior Member

T-U-P

The Punisher

PiSigma

"the engineer"