Description of chart 5 
Overnight spending and the exchange rate

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The title of the graph is "Chart 5 Overnight spending and the exchange rate."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 28 categories in the horizontal axis. The primary vertical axis starts at 400 and ends at 1,000 with ticks every 100 points. The secondary vertical axis starts at 0.75 and ends at 1.05 with ticks every 0.05 points.
There are 3 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "Quarter."
The title of series 1 is "Overnight trips to the United States (seasonally adjusted)."
The vertical axis is "millions (CAD)."
The minimum value is 436 and it corresponds to "Q3 2006."
The maximum value is 939 and it corresponds to "Q2 2012."
The title of series 2 is "Exchange rate (USD/CAD)."
The vertical axis is "exchange rate (USD/CAD)."
The minimum value is 0.803 and it corresponds to "Q1 2009."
The maximum value is 1.033 and it corresponds to "Q2 2011."
The title of series 3 is "Parity."
The vertical axis is "exchange rate (USD/CAD)."
The minimum value is 1 and it corresponds to "Q1 2006, Q2 2006, Q3 2006, Q4 2006, Q1 2007, Q2 2007, Q3 2007, Q4 2007, Q1 2008, Q2 2008, Q3 2008, Q4 2008, Q1 2009, Q2 2009, Q3 2009, Q4 2009, Q1 2010, Q2 2010, Q3 2010, Q4 2010, Q1 2011, Q2 2011, Q3 2011, Q4 2011, Q1 2012, Q2 2012, Q3 2012 and Q4 2012."
The maximum value is 1 and it corresponds to "Q1 2006, Q2 2006, Q3 2006, Q4 2006, Q1 2007, Q2 2007, Q3 2007, Q4 2007, Q1 2008, Q2 2008, Q3 2008, Q4 2008, Q1 2009, Q2 2009, Q3 2009, Q4 2009, Q1 2010, Q2 2010, Q3 2010, Q4 2010, Q1 2011, Q2 2011, Q3 2011, Q4 2011, Q1 2012, Q2 2012, Q3 2012 and Q4 2012."

Data table for chart 5
  Overnight trips to the United States (seasonally adjusted) Exchange rate (USD/CAD) Parity
  millions (CAD) exchange rate (USD/CAD) exchange rate (USD/CAD)
Q1 2006 443 0.866 1.00
Q2 2006 439 0.891 1.00
Q3 2006 436 0.892 1.00
Q4 2006 482 0.878 1.00
Q1 2007 488 0.854 1.00
Q2 2007 477 0.911 1.00
Q3 2007 569 0.957 1.00
Q4 2007 613 1.019 1.00
Q1 2008 643 0.996 1.00
Q2 2008 592 0.990 1.00
Q3 2008 610 0.960 1.00
Q4 2008 592 0.825 1.00
Q1 2009 593 0.803 1.00
Q2 2009 608 0.857 1.00
Q3 2009 627 0.911 1.00
Q4 2009 638 0.947 1.00
Q1 2010 706 0.961 1.00
Q2 2010 735 0.973 1.00
Q3 2010 723 0.962 1.00
Q4 2010 784 0.987 1.00
Q1 2011 782 1.014 1.00
Q2 2011 802 1.033 1.00
Q3 2011 835 1.020 1.00
Q4 2011 843 0.977 1.00
Q1 2012 861 0.999 1.00
Q2 2012 939 0.990 1.00
Q3 2012 919 1.005 1.00
Q4 2012 922 1.009 1.00
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, CANSIM Table 176-0064.
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