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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Economy of Canada
Canada is one of the world's wealthiest nations, a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Group of Eight (G8).
Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of the primary sector, with the logging and oil industries being two of Canada's most important.
Canada's government-run healthcare system is also an important attraction, as it exempts companies from the high health insurance costs they must pay in the United States.
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 Economy Of Canada
Canada, a land of vast distances and rich natural resources, is the second largest country in the world.
Canada is also world’s largest producer of many important natural resources such as zinc, uranium, gold, nickel, aluminum and lead.
Since then Canada enjoys stable economic development, with real rates of grows nearly 3 percent, falling unemployment, and government budget surpluses are being partially devoted to reducing the large public sector debt.
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  CANADA - Information Pages dealing with the Canadian economy
Because Canada has such a small population in relation to its landmass, it is the second leading exporter of grain in the world even though it is not the second largest producer.
The largest tobacco growing area in Canada is found on the north shore of Lake Erie, and most of the country's production of soft tree fruits and table and wine grapes is grown in the narrow strip of lake-level land in the Niagara peninsula.
Canada is known throughout the world for its natural resources and for the great amount of grain its farms produce, but more people are employed in manufacturing in Canada than in agriculture, mining, forestry, and fishing combined.
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 Canada Economy
Canada's importance to the United States is not just a border-state phenomenon: Canada is the leading export market for 39 of the 50 U.S. States, and ranked in the top three for another 8 States.
Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of energy to the United States--providing 17% of U.S. oil imports and 18% of U.S. natural gas demand.
Statistics Canada reports that at the end of 2004, the stock of U.S. foreign direct investment in Canada was $175 billion, or about 65% of total foreign direct investment in Canada.
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 Economy of Canada, Culture of Canada, Canada Flag, Canada History, History of Canada
The flag of Canada is made up of two vertical bands of red (along the hoist and fly side and is half width), with a white square between them.
The economy of Canada is quite advanced and most of the people enjoy high standard of living.
Canada has an abundance of natural resources, such as forests, minerals, fish, and hydroelectric power, all of which has helped Canada focus their economic development on the export of raw materials and around 33.6 percent of its GDP is dedicated to exports.
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 Economy of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canada is one of the world's wealthiest nations, a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Group of Eight (G8).
Canada is a world leader in the production of many natural resources such as gold, nickel, uranium, and lead.
Canada is in the feasibility and exploration stages for a bilateral FTA with:
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 PICS-Economy of Canada
With a population of 30 million and a GDP at $830 billion in 1997, Canada is one of the world's largest economies.
A member of the G7 group of leading industrial countries, Canada enjoys an enviable standard of living, an excellent infrastructure, a highly educated and skilled-labour force as well as a well-deserved reputation as a successful trading nation.
Canada’s economy is responding to the challenge of global competition and changing needs.
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 Economy - Canada - North America: federal government, canadian dollar, canadian economy, agriculture forestry, canada ...
Canada has an advanced economy, and the majority of its citizens enjoy a high quality of life by world standards.
Canada is also highly integrated into the global economy through trade, with 33.6 percent of its GDP dedicated to exports.
During the decade from 1986 to 1995, the Canadian economy grew 20.4 percent and reached a GDP of C$776.3 billion, representing a per-capita income of C$25,900.
www.countriesquest.com /north_america/canada/economy.htm   (309 words)

  
 Canada: Our Oldest Good Neighbor: What Kind of Economy Does Canada Have?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
They were all taken over when the railways were nationalized—for Canada, in contrast to the United States, has not believed in divorcing these lines of business.
Canada could not escape from its vital dependence on foreign trade, and in a way this dependence was greater than before.
This of course revived the problem of markets at the end of the war, for Canada cannot begin to consume the food that its West is capable of producing.
www.historians.org /projects/GIRoundtable/Canada/Canada_5.htm   (1824 words)

  
 IT Career Point :: Working in Canada ::
Canada is also a world leader in the fields of telecommunications, biotechnology, aerospace technologies and pharmaceuticals.
Canada’s stable and resilient economy depends on the country's immense reserves of natural resources and strong manufacturing, commerce and services industries.
Canada is a free market economy with much less government intervention than most European nations and has traditionally had a slightly lower per capita GDP than USA (whereas wealth has been more equally divided), but higher than the large western European economies.
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 Political Economy of Canada's Culture Policy: the 1990's
Telefilm Canada was given additional funding for participation in projects of Canadian producers in recognition of the "limited license fees earned in Canada;" the same comment could have been made regarding inadequate advertising revenues that were available to broadcasters in the small Canadian market.
The first objective of Canada's culture policy, and the primary one, ought to be that of making goods available to Canadians that articulate and express Canada's unique national culture, its values, and how its social and political processes and institutions operate and relate to the lives of Canadians.
Canada could have created a more favorable condition for itself and for its culture goods industries by being clearer and more aggressive in defining and stating the objectives of its culture policy and the principles upon which it is based.
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 Tilting at Windmills » Economy (Canada)
In concrete terms, across Canada, 1 in 50 manufacturing workers have lost their jobs in the last month, and 3 in 50 have lost their jobs in the last year.
As the Canadian economy moves towards being protected the manufacturing sector, already under a lot of stress (partially caused by the rising dollar, which is caused in part by increased energy prices) will decline.
The primary reason why Canada has managed to decelerate what should have been a rapid decline in our social democratic welfare state, such as it is, is the continuous and ongoing federal-provincial tensions.
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 Canada's underground immigrant economy costing “millions" - Canada Immigration :: Campbell Cohen
Amid deportation hearings, officials in Canada are wondering what to do with all these illegal workers.
The irony is that Canada is so desperate to attract foreign skilled laborers to fill the shortages in key Canadian industries such as construction, oil, and gas.
Solberg has ruled-out introducing similar legislation here in Canada explaining that his government has their "own ideas on that," and offering no further details on the matter.
www.canadavisa.com /illegal-canadian-immigration-costing-millions.htm   (619 words)

  
 Murky View » Blog Archive » As Chinese and Indian Economy grows… Canada follows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The CBC is reporting the Bank of Canada’s new growth projection of 3.1% for 2006..
Canada is the third largest copper producer in the world, after Chile and the USA.
The Indian economy grew by an equally impressive 7.5-8 percent last year and continues to show signs of emerging as a Global power right along with it’s Asian neighbour.
www.murkyview.com /archives/2006/01/26/as-chinese-and-indian-economy-grows-canada-follows   (1278 words)

  
 Economy of Canada
Canada is by far the United States' largest trading partner, with more than 1.4 billion in trade a day.
Canada and the United States signed an aviation agreement during President Clinton's visit to Canada in February 1995, and air traffic between the two countries has increased dramatically as a result.
The U.S. is Canada's largest foreign investor; at the end of 1999, the stock of U.S. direct investment was estimated at $116.7 billion, or about 72% of total foreign direct investment in Canada.
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 Economy of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
Canada enjoys a substantial trade surplus with its principal trading partner, the US, which absorbs more than 85% of Canadian exports.
Canada is the US' largest foreign supplier of energy, including oil, gas, uranium, and electric power.
www.ocra.com /solutions/canada_economy.asp   (312 words)

  
 Canadian Economy in Canada
The economy of Canada in the 21st century is diversified.
Canada sells its goods and services around the world, however more than 80% of exports and 70% of imports take place with the United States.
The largest impact on the Canadian economy was probably the rapid rise of the Canadian dollar after years of decline against its American counterpart.
www.canada.softlandings.com /canadian-economy.php   (548 words)

  
 Economy in Canada, Canada Economy Statistics, Canada Economy Facts, Canada Economy, Economic Profile of Canada
The economy of Canada comes under the high-income OECD countries having a gross national income of $ 756.9 billion (2003 figure).
Among the various sectors of the economy, more than two thirds of the country's output is contributed by the Service sector.
The primary sectors of the economy contributed less than 3% of the Canada's GDP in the year 2004 and provided employment of 3% of the total workforce of the country.
www.mapsofworld.com /canada/economy-in-canada.html   (165 words)

  
 Canada's Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Canada has one of the world's most dynamic and innovative economies that provides Canadians with one of world's highest standards of living.
Canada is a trading country and a founding member of the WTO.
Canada enjoys assured access to the North American market of over 400 million people with a combined GDP of over US$ 11.4 trillion.
www.beijing.gc.ca /beijing/en/navmain/canada/economy/index.htm   (184 words)

  
 Canada Mortgage, Mortgage in Canada, Canada Mortgage Rates, Canada MortgageIndustry
Canada Mortgage have become increasingly complex in the recent years.
From estimation it is seen that to the end of the year 2004, Canada’s Banks had $368 billion in outstanding residential mortgages, which is 62.1% of total mortgage market ($593 billion).
In this case the mortgage rates and mortgage payments are adjusted in every three months according to the fluctuations of the rate in effect.
www.economywatch.com /mortgage/canada.html   (666 words)

  
 U.S. economy drags Canada down   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The U.S. economic slowdown is already under way and will act as a drag on Canada's economy for the rest of this year and into 2007, a Canadian bank economist said yesterday.
Combined with the impact of the strong dollar and a downward correction in commodity prices as the world's largest economy slows, growth here would decelerate to 2.25 to 2.5 per cent from the 3.8 per cent reached during the first quarter of this year, Mr.
What's happening is a mid-business-cycle, and mid-decade slowdown in the North American economies, he said, noting that there were North American recessions at the start of the 1980s, 1990s, and, in the U.S., early this decade, and that this slowdown should be similar to the slowdowns in the mid-1980s and '90s.
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 Canada - 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.
Canada enjoys a substantial trade surplus with its principal trading partner, the US, which absorbs more than 85% of Canadian exports.
Canada is the US' largest foreign supplier of energy, including oil, gas, uranium, and electric power.
www.exxun.com /Canada/e_ec.html   (575 words)

  
 Canada US investment - Canadian economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The economy expanded at a blistering annual rate of 6 per cent, Statistics Canada reported yesterday, more than double the rate recorded in the final quarter of 2001.
Although no one expects the economy to maintain its hectic pace of the first quarter, most forecasters think it will keep growing robustly for the rest of the year and into 2003.
During the first quarter, the U.S. economy grew 5.6 per cent, but analysts were quick to note yesterday that underlying demand expanded by only 2 per cent, with the rest of the growth coming from inventory changes.
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Canada’s economy has a growth rate of 3.2 %.
As an affluent, high tech industrial society, Canada today closely resembles the US in its market oriented economic system, pattern of production, and high living standards.
Unemployment is falling and government budget surpluses are being primarily devoted to reducing the large public sector debt.
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 Economy Of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 BCTD Canada: Underground Economy
Beating the underground economy is one of our top priorities, and we are working with industry partners and the government to find solutions.
Revenue Canada released the guide "Employed or Self-Employed" that provides a clearer definition of independent contractor with an entire section aimed at the construction industry.
The KPMG study showed that a major contributor to underground economy activity in the construction industry is cash-and-dash payments.
www.buildingtrades.ca /english/economy.html   (285 words)

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