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I have never been to Canada, which seems strange because I have been to places much further than that and so many people I know have. One of my friends when I was in grade school had another home there (I think his dad traveled back and forth for his job). Last year Ball States football team played in a bowl in Canada, but I was on vacation so I couldn't go. I wonder though if it is a lot like here, since we are so close. It is weird to think that a location so close could be different from ours. I was looking online to find out a little more about it when I came across a website about The Financial Services Commission of Ontario and I clicked on it to see what it was all about. The website gives a ton of information for the consumers like Ontario health insurance quotes and what to do after an accident if you have Ontario auto insurance. This website seems like it is not only very useful for current residents, but also a learning tool for those that don't know very much about Canada and its policies but would like to get a better understanding. Some of the topics other than auto and health insurance include credit unions, banking and information about mortgages and financial and other institutions.

In one of my classes we are doing a project where we have to plan out our future careers and choose and home and cars and basically our whole lives and insure them and pretend it's real and make a budget and so on. But the only options we had were to live in the United States. I think it would be interesting it the project was expanded to living anywhere in the world. That way we would be able to learn more about other cultures and governments and their policies and how they compare and contrast to ours. It is inevitable that someone taking personal financial planning 110 at Ball State University will one day live outside of this country. It would interesting and beneficial for us to learn about mortgages and interest rates and taxes not only here in the united states (which is extremely important) but also in other countries where we could potentially decide to reside one day or at least maybe vacation for a long period of time. It can't hurt to know as much as possible.