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Originally posted by powerclown
The oddest thing about Canada is that everbody drives around with their lights on in the middle of the day.
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Daytime running lights. Basically, a car with lights on looks like a moving car. A car without lights on looks like a car parked on the side of the road. The lights are for other people to see, not for you to see.
Newer cars have them standard, and sensible people with older cars turn on their lights manually. (by old, I mean pre-1990ish)
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Peryn typed:
It seems to me, that as a whole, Canada isn't active enough politically, militarily or whatever in the world to warrant our attention. Aside from trade with the US, Canada just isn't a strong enough force to matter what your opinions are.
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Considering Canada exports nearly as many goods to the USA as China does... "aside from trade" seems like a pretty big exception!
The second, minor, impact we have had on the world was that wierd little idea called "peacekeeping".
The third impact is generally the fact that Canada is a rich industrialized nation that the world doesn't hate. And yes, this is an impact, and a useful tool.
I will admit that the USA spends 1/3 of Canada's GDP on their military alone. =) (They also spend 1/3 of Canada's GDP on health-care forms. Not health-care, just the paperwork surrounding it. baka) So, if your only goal is not to be nuked, you can safely ignore Canada. Canada has never chosen to build an atomic bomb (although we did rent a few for a bit, we have none currently). However, to be fair, if Canada chose to become a nuclear power, it could probably happen overnight.