The rise in value of the Canadian dollar "is an energy story," said Busch. With crude oil futures trading at more than $83 U.S., investment capital is pouring north to help extract oil from so-called tar sands, also known as oil sands, in the province of Alberta.
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High dollar hurts Canadians
Yippee. Unrestrained boom that hurts every other province.
That Bank of Canada sure is myopic, but then they just take their orders from the Bank for International Settlements.