Canada Timeline: The Dragon Splits
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| Motto: "A Mari Usque Ad Mare" |
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| Anthem: "O Canada" Royal anthem: "God save the Queen" |
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| Capital | Ottawa | ||||
| Largest city | Toronto | ||||
| Other cities | Calgary, Halifax, London, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Regina, Saskatoon, St. John's, Vancouver, Victoria, Windsor, Winnepeg | ||||
| Official languages | English, French | ||||
| Ethnic groups | 76.7% White
14.2% Asian 4.3% Aboriginal 2.9% Black 1.2% Latin American 0.5% multiracial 0.3% other |
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| Demonym | Canadian | ||||
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy | ||||
| - | Monarch | Elizabeth II | |||
| - | Governor-General | David Johnston | |||
| - | Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau | |||
| - | Chief-Justice | Beverley McLachlin | |||
| Legislature | Parliament | ||||
| - | Upper house | Senate | |||
| - | Lower house | House of Commons | |||
| Establishment from the United Kingdom | |||||
| - | Confederation | July 1, 1867 | |||
| - | Statute of Westminster | December 11, 1931 | |||
| - | Patriation | April 17, 1982 | |||
| Area | |||||
| - | Total | 8,442,614 km2 3,259,711 sq mi |
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| Population | |||||
| - | 2016 census | 27,694,800 | |||
| Currency | Canadian Dollar ($) |
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| Drives on the | right | ||||
| Calling code | + 1 | ||||
Canada is country located in North America, sharing borders with the United States at the south and northwest via the State of Alaska, maritime borders with the Danish territory of Greenland and the French overseas dependency of San Pierre and Miquelon. It is composed of 11 provinces and is the second largest country in the world at 9,984,670 square km.
History[]
See also: History of Canada
Recent History[]
Canada took part in the 2011 NATO Intervention in Libya. On October 22, 2014, there was a terrorist attack on the Parliamentary Hill in Ottawa. This was done in response to Canadian military intervention in the battle against ISIS in the Middle East. In November 2015, Justin Trudeau succeeded Stephen Harper as the Prime Minister of Canada. He announced the Royal Canadian Air Force would withdraw combat planes from Syria, which performed their last air sortie in February 15, 2016. Nonetheless, there are Canadian Special Forces deployed to the ground in Iraq and Syria, providing technical assistance to the anti-ISIS forces operating there.
Canada has maintained a neutral stance in the ongoing Chinese insurgency and the South China Sea dispute, instead urging all parties to find a peaceful end to the conflicts. The country continues to accept refugees coming from the Mexico, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and China since the Trump Administration in the neighboring United States tightened their policies on immigration. The Chinese community in Vancouver, specifically in Richmond of which most escaped to Canada following the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, have denounced the Chinese Central Government's actions on the mainland. Inspired by the American Volunteer Brigades, there are plans to form a Chinese-Canadian volunteer brigade to deploy to Hong Kong.
Foreign Relations[]
Canada has great relations with the international community. It has good relations with the United States, Mexico, Cuba, and majority of Latin America. Canada and the United States have an open-borders policy in which citizens from both nations can enter both countries without a visa.
Canada is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a symbol of its colonial past with the United Kingdom. Belonging to Anglosphere, Canada has good relations with Australia and New Zealand.
The country maintains friendly relations with China and recently saw a deal to sell oil from Alberta. This has been criticized by some Canadians as being to leaning on to the Chinese regime.
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