***** you!!! Our guys are taking more deaths than any other nation in Afghanistan. Remember the war that was after the guys that caused 911... Forgotten, and now you are in a war with a dead dictator, and no..... forget it, just don't give me this crap that we need you for support. My Canuck brothers have always fought their way when needed.

Joe

 

***** yes they have and Scout I say thank you for it.I guess someone slept through history class

 

LOL - How the hell did we get from the Yukon (West) to Nova Scotia (East). While Cape Breton is technically part of Nova Scotia / Canada, they are a wee bit strange there so we're really not sure what they are. You should relate though . . . I understand they do bad things with fish.[sm=escape.gif]

 

Just trying to lighten things up here a bit. I had business with two Canadian dealers in June. Privateers HDin Halifax for an oil change and Ramsey's HD in Cape Breton to replace a blown stator. Both were very friendly and dropped everything to get me back on the road.
-fish

 

Good. Please don't visit either and start buying your crap in your own country. Someone has to generate those huge taxes you pay for YOUR wonderful government. Of course they don't spend any of your taxes on a military because they depend on us to protect the continent.

 

OK, I've had enough of the government bashing here. There is no excuse for tearing down someone else's country. If you guys want to take it to PROD then have at it. If not then this needs to stop now.

~Terry~

 

Youknow Rex, I was looking for them fish pluckers, but everywhere I looked...

NO FISH !

 

its to bad the Mckenzie Brothers didnt build bikes instead of drinkin all that Beer,
Canada would have its own Brand of motersickle!

 

Send more Harley's or we're cuttin' off the beer, eh.

 

We can't, or some of us would. The U.S. Gov't holds a 'lottery' for folks in other countries who would like to immigrate to the states.
The last time I saw the ad for applying in one of our local newspapers Canadians were not eligible to apply. Canada was not one of the 'so-called favoured' nations at the time. The previous time, I was able to apply and did, but 'didn't win'.
The U.S. Goy't has also amended the 'sponsorship' program they have had in place forever. It used to be that we could be 'sponsored' by family members who held U.S. citizenship, or lived a particular length of time in the U.S., and just about any of my relatives qualified. Now I can only be sponsored by someone immediate to me, that is, my sponsor has to be my mother, father, brother, and/or sister. Aunts, uncles, and cousins aren't immediate enough now. That, or I have to marry an American, and being able to get a Green Card is still a bit dicey, even at that.
The only other way is to hold a job that is in high demand in the U.S. and they will allow immigration to help relieve 'pressure', so to speak.
I could get a job in the U.S. tomorrow but it wouldn't fly.

....as far as the debate over prices go; all you need to do is check a particular item on both the U.S. and Canadian Harley websites to see what guys are griping about. Deeley has NEVER addressed the discrepancy, even when the Canadian dollar was low. The simple answer is to buy stuff from Zanottis, or the like, and have it shipped to a U.S. border town, and go broker it yourself. If you live too far away, have someone do it for you. This way you only pay the 13% on the paid value of the items (with the CDN$ at par with the U.S.$ these days) and escape the enormous broker fees to get it into Canada. Shipping is zilch inside of the U.S. Mainland compared to getting it sent over the border to a Canadian address, and many items are a fraction of the cost up here. Remember too that Zanotti's and Chicago HD discount a further 20% on the prices on the U.S. HD website.
As far as bike prices go, well, if I were going to try and take advantage of buying a bike in the U.S. I'd use an address of a relative in the U.S., and I'd walk in with U.S. cash I'd converted from a Canadian bank draft. Half our banks have branches in the U.S. They've just messed with the names a bit to fool them.
Kinda like what the foreign oil companies have done for years. Who do you think BP's parent is? Billy Bob's Petroleum?


CN

And one other thing.....yes, Canada has a military presence in Afghanistan but our troop numbers are something like only a couple of thousand tops, out of the twenty thousand or so total troops from all nations. We have had something like 70-ish troops killed, total....close to ten or so of those were from 'friendly fire'. I doubt we have anywhere near the casualties of some of the other nations seeing combat.