Canada

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Canada ( / ˈ k æ n ə d ə /) is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.

The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament.

A federation consisting of ten provinces and three territories, Canada is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual nation with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. One of the world's highly developed countries, Canada has a diversified economy that is reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade—particularly with the United States, with which Canada has had a long and complex relationship. It is a member of the G8, G-20, NATO, OECD, WTO, Commonwealth, Francophonie, OAS, APEC, and UN.

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Thu Sep 2 21:35:59 2010

How does Canada manage to maintain such a low murder rate compared to America?
Q. It's really amazing - Canada's national murder rate is THREE times lower than the rate in the US. How do they pull this off? Are Canadian cops simply three times more competent than the cops in America, or what? What can we learn from Canada when it comes to bringing down the murder rate? Why is America failing in this regard compared to Canada? Who is to blame, and how can we correct this crisis?
Asked by Holographer - Fri Feb 26 19:39:12 2010 - - 13 Answers - 1 Comments

A. for starters fix your prison system its the largest in the world and easily one of the most ineffective too many people in prison for minor drug offences first off second people go in for minor crimes, learn the tools of the trade from inmates, join gangs and then bring that to the outside world where they become better criminals and work in the same gangs they were a part of in prison we also didnt have a huge slave population that suddenly were free and then not given any support and generations later they are still at a disadvantage and turn to crime to make up for that discrepancy
Answered by TheAcaciaStrain - Sat Feb 27 11:06:46 2010

How badly is Canada affected by the financial crisis?
Q. If the US goes under and the US Dollar starts to lose value, will Canada be there worst affected country since the US is the biggest trading partner? Also, how much debt does Canada have compared to the US? I've read the Canada survived the great depression pretty well with only a dozen bank failures compared to over 600 on the US side, what do you think is the deal now?
Asked by Eric F - Wed Jan 28 17:54:51 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Canada is much better off than the U.S. because our banks did not get caught up in the mortgage meltdown that occurred in the US. How ever there is currently a global recession going on which Canada can not escape from. The US dollar will probably sell off making our exports to the US more expensive putting pressure on our economy.
Answered by Joe S - Wed Jan 28 19:53:31 2009

How can we bring our handcapped child to Canada?
Q. We obtained recently our Canadian citizenship through the resident permanent procedure, however our first child, who was born with spina bifida and is handicapped, remained in our country of origin. We have never declared him in front of the Canada immigration, since he has always lived in a government medical centre for children with special needs. Now, after communicating with several lawyers, we realized that we violated the Canada immigration law. We would greatly appreciate any advise of how we could possibly bring him to Canada.
Asked by Didi - Sun Apr 6 16:14:11 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. the only possible way to do this is if you do it through H&C. you must also provide information about how you can support your son's illness when he arrives here and build a case around the fact that he needs to be with you.
Answered by a - Sun Apr 13 05:24:23 2008

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By Canadians

  • I am proud to be the first member of the Canadian Royal Family to be greeted in Canada's newest Territory.
  • I dedicate myself anew to the people and the nation I am proud to serve.
  • As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and exellent in the human spirit.
  • Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
  • We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
    • Andy Barrie
  • Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
  • Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
  • I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.
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