# So just what is the 'meaning' of Canada?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-meaning-of-canada/790340>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 2, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-meaning-of-canada/790340 "2017-07-02T10:49:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-meaning-of-canada/790340/61 "2017-07-08T02:44:16Z")

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> [@PoppaSan](#):
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> So, the spill was in 1989. That’s the one you refer to? The USAid site goes back to 2001. That year and the following, US aid to Canada was in the tens of thousands, for narcotics programs. What happened in 2003 to up it to tens of millions for every year since then?

The spill was in 2010. Seriously? :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-meaning-of-canada/790340/62 "2017-07-08T02:59:23Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> The spill was in 2010. Seriously? :rolleyes:

Sorry, I went with the Exxon one in Alaska, you know close to Canada. Not the one in the gulf on the other side of the continent. So why are the amounts from after the BP one the same as the numbers before it? The US has been shipping $20m + to Canada for environmental usage for almost 15 years. Why?

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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-meaning-of-canada/790340/63 "2017-07-08T03:09:07Z")

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Too late to add:  
Do Saskatchewan farmers need to be paid off every year to not fill their potholes in so birds have a place to nest? And foreign money is used to fund it?  
Actually I’m not sure what the _Saskatchewan Habitat Program Protection, Habitat Management_ and _Potholes Plus Project Protection, Other_ or _Saskatchewan Prairie Shores Project Protection, Habitat Management_ actually are for but each province seems to get their share.

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-meaning-of-canada/790340/64 "2017-07-08T03:10:47Z")

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> [@PoppaSan](#):
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> Sorry, I went with the Exxon one in Alaska, you know close to Canada. Not the one in the gulf on the other side of the continent. So why are the amounts from after the BP one the same as the numbers before it? The US has been shipping $20m + to Canada for environmental usage for almost 15 years. Why?

I’m sorry. I have no idea what you’re talking about.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-meaning-of-canada/790340/65 "2017-07-08T04:12:45Z")

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PoppaSan, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Sayonara.

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