Canada Today

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Canada Today
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Challenges and Opportunities

• Its future greatly depends on the geography
• The themes of environmental interaction and
  movement are key to future development
• Movement and Resources
• Challenge of excavating natural resources while
  protecting the fragile tundra
• - using heavy machinery to do this can cause
  permanent damage to the landscape
• Movement of the people
• 77 of the population live in urban areas

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Links with the United States

• U.S./ Canada border is largest undefended border
  in the world(5,000 miles)
• Customs- tariffs or fees paid by one countrys
  government on goods brought into another country

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• Economic Links
• Canada buys 25 of all U.S. exports and we buy
  75 of Canadas exports

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• Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
• signed in 1988
• Called for an end to export barriers including
  tariffs by 1999
• prior to this agreement, tariffs made buying and
  selling b/w nations very expensive
• in 1992 Mexico was added North American Free
  Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

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• Importance of Location
• - major ports on the Atlantic and Pacific