What it means to be Canadian :
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Culture: Canadian culture is a hybrid of European and American practices, including cooking, writing, as well as sports and filmmaking. Canada's culture is nearly indistinguishable from American.
People: The Canadian people are represented as a very diverse, progressive, multicultural people. Canada's federal government has been called the "instigator of multicultural ideology", because if the importance they place in immigration. Geography: Canada's geographic characteristics vary pretty drastically, including large boreal forests throughout the country, as well as arctic ecosystems further north near the Rocky Mountains. Canada is also very agriculturally inclined due to parries in the south west. Whats happening now?: The Canadian Prime Minister created an ambitious goal to halt all permanent greenhouse gas emissions from Canada in the next 30 years. Canada has also experienced a financial and economic downfall in the past decade. William A. Macdonald explains causes of this in his article "Canada's Major Challenges as it Finds its ways into the Future." He states,"Two important factors have contributed to Canada's shortfall over the last decade: A failure to understand our mutual-accommodation strength and how we can use it, and the overall absence of needed business and political leadership on key economic policy challenges." In 2017 Canada also had goals to increase immigration, this was in direct response to American President Donald Trump and his efforts to tighten and repress immigration efforts. Canada's plan was bring in 310,000 new permanent residents. They even set a goal to have immigrants make up 30% of their population by 2036 |