Will using a .ca hurt overall traffic/SEOing?

I am planning on starting a blog, and I have a cool domain name already but it doesnt quite fit my blog (well, two domains but one is my real name, so I dunno if I wanna use that for a blog) so.. I might buy a new domain

I found a nice short word that would work, but the .com and .net is taken..

If I used .ca would it still rank in other countries just as well as .com/.net/etc???

 

tlds are nothing to do wih se rankings. go with the right keyword

 

.ca is geo targeted to Canada and will be very difficult to market, since it will be given a low priority outside of Canada in most if not all cases.

Also, you can't buy a .ca unless you physically reside in Canada.