Answer:
As of Nov 2009 it's almost back up to 1 Canadian Dollar = 1 USD, but that probably won't last. Back in 2002 .70 cents of Canadian Dollar would get your a dollar USD. Our Federal Reserve has been quite the bad boys with with Greenspan and Bernanke keeping interest rates too low causing a flood of easy money to cause worldwide risky speculation and thus economic shocks.
Get an exact spot check go here:
www.xe.com
Or to see a graph of USD to CAD the last 60 years see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar#Value