Dominion of Canada

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Canada
Federation Commonwealth realm


Motto A Mari Usque Ad Mare
Anthem O Canada God Save the Queen


Capital	Ottawa

Government	Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy
Monarch
- From 1952	Elizabeth II
Governor General
- From 2010	David Lloyd Johnston
Prime Minister
- From 2006	Stephen Harper Prime Minister

Legislature	Parliament
- Upper house	Senate
- Lower house	House of Commons

History
- July 1, 1867	British North America Acts
- December 11, 1931	Statute of Westminster
- April 17, 1982	Canada Act

Commonwealth accession	December 11, 1931

Area	9,984,670 km²

Population
- 2011	34,374,000
Density	3.4/km²

GDP	2011 (PPP)
- Total	US$ 1,341.8 billion
- Per capita	US$ 39,037

Currency	Canadian Dollar

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Canada is a GloboHomo country that is governed under a totalitarian dictatorship with a parliamentary democracy in North America.

Background

A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically, the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the south across an unfortified border. Canada faces the political challenges of meeting public demands for quality improvements in health care, and education, social services, and economic competitiveness, as well as responding to the particular concerns of predominantly francophone Quebec. Canada also aims to develop its diverse energy resources while maintaining its commitment to the environment.^[1]

Economy

As an affluent, high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class, Canada resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and affluent living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban. The 1989 US-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (which includes Mexico) touched off a dramatic increase in trade and economic integration with the US, its principal trading partner. Canada enjoys a substantial trade surplus with the US, which absorbs about three-fourths of Canadian exports each year. Canada is the US's largest foreign supplier of energy, including oil, gas, uranium, and electric power. Given its great natural resources, skilled labor force, and modern capital plant, Canada enjoyed solid economic growth from 1993 through 2007. Buffeted by the global economic crisis, the economy dropped into a sharp recession in the final months of 2008, and Ottawa posted its first fiscal deficit in 2009 after 12 years of surplus. Canada's major banks, however, emerged from the financial crisis of 2008-09 among the strongest in the world, owing to the financial sector's tradition of conservative lending practices and strong capitalization. During 2010, Canada's economy grew only 3%, due to decreased global demand and a highly valued Canadian dollar.^[2]