RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:AirmilesAverage Canadian? Flamingogold you are dead wrong and you are sounding like Tommy 123 in your opinions. If there is anyone who can compare and have an opinion on Canada it would be me not you. And yes BBD is subsidized Quebec garbage company which sucked and wasted millions of taxpayers money. Do you own home work. Dual shares company subsided by funds and governments. I lived in Czechoslovakia till my 25 under communist regime making $ 100 us a month in 1988 . Emigrated to Canada 1989 . One year worked in Austria. Going back and forth I can see the changes in each country a specially in Czech Republic. Canada is becoming a third world country going backwards. No Evropeans who emigrated here after second world war are coming here. What for? Canada has nothing to offer, nothing extra. Only African people, South Americans are coming here. Still attractive for them . For 30 years I live in Toronto. What did they achieve? What has been built? Nothing all we are doing here is patching up pot holes and fixing bridges. One subway extension line and a few go train stations? Lol. All taxpayers money wasted. People overtaxed. Emigrants like myself pissed looking/ considering to move somewhere else. After 1989 ( big real estate recession) Canada was done. Introducing GST, free trade making idiotic global fee trades especially with China. USA/ Canada under Clinton government. Huge costly mistake . Now so many ritch Chinese are moving to Canada hiding money in land/ real estate and our kids have hard time to buy their own homes. Second biggest country in the world with so much land!!! Disgrace. It took me in 1993 one year to save 25 % for down payment to buy house in Toronto. In my country man friend bought 3 plex i Mississauga in in just 6 months. He emigrated 1972. You live in lala land. Plus I didn't even mention how Czech Republic advanced since cold war. There GDP is just behind Italy remember in 1988 I was making $1200 us a year and I didn't even mention that historically Czech's have the highest consumption of beer in the world per person and simply the best beer. Cheers.