Why Canada is Great

Changing Populations

Physical Geography

Managing Resources

Livable Cities

Living Space

Diversity

Land Use

Scenery

Rural Areas

Immigration

Urbanization

Small population for large country - urban areas

Immigration

Culture - Multicultural Areas

Language - bilingual , as well as over 34 ethnic groups in Canada

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220 000 refugees a year per year for the last 10 years

2011 NHS - total of 6,775,800 foreign-born
immigrants - 20.6% of total population

Institutional - 10% - For public facilities - institutions

Transportation - 33% For amenities

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Appeals to hermits with an eye for aesthetics

Population shift from rural to urban

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Good for farming

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Residential - 40% of land - Low, medium, high density housing developments - neighbourhoods

Construction in Toronto and Mississauga

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Job opportunities

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Resource Sustainability

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Government

Liberal

Justin Trudeau (/anyone other than Trump)

Taking in refugees

Refugees

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Makes refugees/people of same culture or nationality more at ease to live here - immigrants will not feel out of place

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Economy

Refugees

Job Opportunities in Different Industries

Secondary - manufacturing - using resources from primary - ex. factories

Primary - extraction of raw minerals - ex. mining

Tertiary - entertainment - ex. movie theatres, retail

Quaternary - knowledge-based - programming

Hydropower

Wind turbines

Forest preservation

Certifying, approving companies

Soil/Climate Conditions

Open and Green - 7%- For recreation and conservation

Tundra soils

Wet-climate soils

Range in mountainous areas

Equality

Gay marriage was legalized many years ago

Justin Trudeau has a 50% female cabinet - gender equality

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Job Opportunities

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Over 34 different ethnic groups

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Farmland

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Industrial - 6% - For factories, processing developments, manufacturing

Commercial - 5% - For development for retail, services, office use

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Considered multicultural - not melting pot like USA

80% of Canadians live in urban areas

Shift from living in rural areas to urban areas

Began after WWII

Urbanization

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New Urbanism

Expanded Infrastructures

Vancouver - factors include walkability , common public space

Population

Population is getting older, consequentially increasing

Multicultural

Farming

Climate conditions - Arctic, Taiga, Cordillera, Prairie, Boreal, Pacific Maritime, Southeastern, Atlantic Maritime

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Agriculture

Availability of resources

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Planning

Changing laws to accommodate

Crops that make soil better

Shelterbelts

Better use of nutrients

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Livability

Population pyramid for 2016 vs prediction for 2031

2016: Population = 36 million

2031: Population = 40 million

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Both genders are equal in both images

Equality

Resource Sustainability

Developed country, good place to live

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Landform regions

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Western Cordillera

Hudson Bay-Arctic Lowlands

Interior Plains

Great Lakes-St Lawrence Lowlands

Canadian Shield

Innuitian Mountains

Appalachians

Affect population distribution, agriculture

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Push and Pull factors

Push factor - cause to leave country currently residing in - something about the country one is already living in - ex political danger

Pull factor - cause to come to a country - something about the country one is moving to - job opportunities, family, etc

Most of Population is in Southern Canada - largely rural - not much urbanization in other areas

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Low population density - 4 peopleper km

Improved mining

Improving technologies

Recycling materials

Finding new sources of minerals

Working with the communities they're in

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Commercial Land Use

Imports and Exports - trade balance

Several international trade agreements

CKFTA

NAFTA

International Relationships

UN

NATO

Global Peacekeeper

Open Immigration

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Stable economy provides opportunity for investments

Leads to influx of labourers and skilled workers/proffeessionals

One of most livable countries in the world

Free education up to high school

Free healthcare

1 year of paid maternity leave

Benefit payments for low-income famolies

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Canada is rich in resources

Low business costs, strung growth rate

Positive image of Canada because of multiculturalism, taking in refugees, "polite",

Canada has a good reputation

Always sorry

Justin Trudeau is admired by the rest of the world, not just Canada

Jokes about being overly polite

International relationships - diplomacy

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