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economist sunthe tribune wednesday december31 j997 p5 stouffville chrysler leads auto industry by accepting loonies at par till jan 5 the canadian and international money markets were stunned today by the announcement from stouffville chrysler that effective 8 am eastern standard time december 29 1997 they would commence accepting payments at par in canadian or us dollars for all vehicles products and services sold by the company peter burdon said he was fed up with the actions taken on our loonies and toonies by the international money manipulators b u r dons statement from his hidden location on island lake was direct and terse whatever price stouffville chrysler puts on any of its vehicles products or services you can pay in canadian or us dollars 39900 a month for a caravan is 39900 us or canadian your choice to us a buck is a loonie we accept both currencies at par tell them to put that in their pipe and smoke it the manipulators are meeting in claremont to avoid panic in the money market place tell someone who cares leaders of most north american and caribbean nations were unavailable for comment having had too much eggnog over the holidays but formerly reliable sources responded as expected ottawa this announcement by stouffville chrysler is in the nations best interest it is obviously a step in one direction or another the cabinet has determined in committee that it may be advisable to appoint a three year mandated royal commission headed by that senator- withnothingtodo to study the affair and report back to us in 2001 certainly no later than 2003 or 2006 the glare from the lights and the maze of microphones hid the source of these dynamic policy statements but a budget of 56000000 was set aside for the investigation us or canadian washington the oval office where the heck is stouffville for that matter where is canada havana the beach the peoples of the world welcome and support the peaceful struggle of the peoples of the nation of stouffville against the imperialist aggression of the international money manipulators from which cuba resigned tomorrow we also want to have cars from stouffville chrysler and will pay for them in the dollars canadian touristas left here quebec city looselips pushhard called to a midnight press conference grabbed the microphone from the hands of this lucid reporter and demanded that stouffville chrysler cease this traitorous and antinationalistic type of vehicle selling he bellowed i will refuse to permit this uncanadian activity to happen in my kingdom right after i buy my wife a new car quebecers cannot run to stouffville chrysler for a new truck because i will hot allow them to accept their change in us dollars they are not in both languages merry christmas and happy new year to all my subjects in the language of my choice to all canadian citizens wherever you live whenver you buycome to stouffvillechrysier where your canadian or us money is worth 100 cents us or canadianwe love your money mm mm mw hip am mum mim stm tfe 711 i w p 5758 main st where loonies i uurfv ilil1j r accept your canadian yiin7cirh ivt stouffville money aipar chrysler inc 9056403200 or 18003220048 t