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      03-11-2011, 04:50 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by carnut View Post
As someone who gets "free healthcare" (i.e. paid for with my tax dollars), I'm not sure I get the connection between said "free healthcare" and the practice of foreign automakers charging Canadians 20% more than our American friends for a similarly equipped car.....
Our prices here are also about 20% more than the USA so probably much like yours. Never quite figured it out either. My financial wiz of a wife mentions "consumer resistence" levels to prices.

Spare a thought though for our Oz friends, they are another 20% on top of our prices
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