Canada

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=My Country Facts=

People
1.What are the people from the country called? (i.e.Mali-Malian, Spain-Spanish) People from Canada are called Canadian.

2.What is the official language?What other languages do people speak? French and English are the most important languages because people from France and England settled these territory. Other regional languages are Inuktitut, Innuinnaqton, Cree, Dëne Suliné, Gwichin,Inuvialukton, Slarey and Dogrib language.

3.What is the most-practiced religion? There is not any official religion but the most practiced is Christian religion and the most influencial is Catholicsm.

4.What is the population growth rate? The Canadian population growth rate in 2010 is aproximetly 0.817%

Government
1.What is the name of the leader of the country? The leader of the country is the Queen of England Elizabeth II.

2.What type of government is the country ruled by (i.e. monarchy,democracy, dictatorship?) Canada is ruled by a Federation, parlamentart, democracy and constitutional monarchy.

3.What are the main political parties of the country (socialis party, communnist party, green party, republicans, democrats, etc?) Bloc Québécois is a socialist party that aid the Canadian Inde and nacionalism. Conservative party of Canada. Liberal party of Canada. Canada´s New democratic Party.

4.Was your country ever a colony? If so, when did it gain its independence? Canada was an English colony until the first of July of 1867 but it wasn´t official until the eleventh of December of 1931.

5.In how many provinces is Canada divided? Canada is divided in 10 provinces and 3 territories.

Geography
1.Where is the country? (i.e. continent and region, for example Central Europe or North Africa) Canada is located in North America.

2.What other nations border the country? The only country that borders Canada is the United States.

3.What kind of landscape does the country have? Mostly plains with mountains in West and Lowlands in Southeast.

4.How many kilometres the canadian coast measure? The Canadian coast measures 202'080 km.

Economy
1.What is the most common sector of emplyment in the country (i.e. business, agriculture and farming, government jobs, etc) The most common sector is services with 71.3%.

2.What is the unemployment rate in your country (by percentage)? The unemployment rate was 6.2% on 2008 and 8.3% on 2009.

3.What products of agriculture does Canada produce? Canada produces wheat, barley, aliseed, tobacco, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, forest products and fish.

The most surprising thing I learned about my country was that Canada is a member of the G8.

What amount of money does your country give to Humanitarian aid?

Canada gives 135$ millions for humanitarian aid.

My prediction
Traficking of species: In my opinion as Canada is very close to the North Pole, there live a lot of wild and exotic animals like the polar bear, some seals, some sea lions, etc... ilegal animal traficking exist specially with zoos or private companies. Also I think that Canada is a very developed country and that's a big problem because some people could make business with animal traficking from other exotic countries like China or some countries from Africa. If animal traficking existed, in Canada it wouldn´t be a very big black market because Canada is a member of a lot of global unions like the UN or the G8. In my opinion Canadian political leaders could resolve it sending people who practise these ilegal business to the jail and protecting more the animals tipical from Canada.

Child labour: Canada is a developed country and one of the biggest world power so because these reasons I think child labour doesn´t exist inside Canada, if it exist it's not very spread and is only in some agricultural areas of the country. In my opinion Canadian opinion about these topic is to avoid child labour in all the world. The government doesn´t give any attention to this problem in their domestice police because really inside the country it doesn't exist. As member of the UN, Canada does all the possible things to prohibit child labour and gives big amounts of money to some ONG that try to avoid these topic.

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