While we were reading the sports section....

...or being distracted by the media with its source over substance... this is a graph of the Canadian dollar vs the US dollar over the past month.  Notice that during bits of December, it was not only on par with the US dollar, but worth slightly more.  Didn't hear much about this during the Bring Out The Clowns debates, did we?

Data from Exchange-rates.org: http://www.exchange-rates.org/history/CAD/USD/G/30