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| x Quebec sovereignty movement |
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The Quebec sovereignty movement refers to the history and present status of multiple, multi-lateral political movements aimed at attaining statehood for the Canadian province of Quebec. Supporters of the movement advocate a variety of proposals....
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| x Politics of global warming |
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The politics of global warming have involved policy decisions, legislation, and political debate over the science of and response to global warming. The political struggle over global warming has involved various governmental bodies, special...
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| x Taxation in Canada |
The level of Taxation in Canada is average among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Approximately 70% of the Canadian government's income comes from taxation, the rest from tariffs, fees, and investments....
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| x Territorial claims in the Arctic |
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Under international law, no country currently owns the North Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it. The five surrounding Arctic states, Russia, the United States (via Alaska), Canada, Norway and Denmark (via Greenland), are limited...
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| x Fiscal imbalance in Canada |
Fiscal imbalance (in French, déséquilibre fiscal) is the term used in Canada to describe a monetary imbalance between the Canadian federal government and the provincial governments.
According to the fiscal imbalance theory, the federal government...
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| x Proportional representation |
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Proportional representation (PR), sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of electoral formula aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in...
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| x Health care in Canada |
Health care in Canada is delivered through a publicly-funded health care system, which is mostly free at the point of use and has most services provided by private entities. It is guided by the provisions of the Canada Health Act.
The government...
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| x 2001 war in Afghanistan |
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The War in Afghanistan is an ongoing coalition conflict which began on October 7, 2001, as the US military's Operation Enduring Freedom that was launched, with help from the British military, in response to the September 11 attacks. The UK has,...
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| x Economy of Canada |
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Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world (measured in US dollars at market exchange rates) is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Group of Eight (G8)....
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| x Canada and the Kyoto Protocol |
Canada was active in negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. However, the Liberal government that later signed the accord took little action towards meeting Canada's greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets. In the decade after Kyoto,...
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| x United States-Canada softwood lumber dispute |
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The United States – Canada softwood lumber dispute is one of the most significant and enduring trade disputes in modern history. The dispute has had its biggest effect on British Columbia, the major Canadian exporter of softwood lumber to the United...
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| x Goods and Services Tax |
The Canadian Goods and Services Tax (GST) (French: Taxe sur les produits et services, TPS) is a multi-level value-added tax introduced in Canada on January 1, 1991, by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and finance minister Michael Wilson. The GST...
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| x Immigration to Canada |
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Immigration to Canada is the process by which people migrate to Canada to reside permanently in the country. Many, but not all, become citizens. People have been migrating to the geographic region of Canada for hundreds of years, with rates of...
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| x Recession of 2008 |
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Beginning in the late 2000s (December 2007 in the United States according to the National Bureau of Economic Research)—and with much greater intensity since September 2008—the industrialized world has been undergoing a recession, a pronounced...
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