Canada

**Canada**
Ottawa 9,984,670 sq km 34,030,589 (July 2011 est.) English (official) 58.8%, French (official) 21.6%, other 19.6% (2006 Census)
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__Task 3 Economic Production__
//$1.33 trillion (2010 est.)// //note: data are in 2010 US dollars // // country comparison to the world: [|15] // //$39,400 (2010 est.)// // country comparison to the world: [|123] // //8% (2010 est.)// //9.4%// //note: this figure is the Low Income Cut-Off (LICO), a calculation that results in higher figures than found in many comparable economies; Canada does not have an official poverty line (2008) // //wheat, barley, oilseed, tobacco, fruits, vegetables; dairy products; forest products; fish// //transportation equipment, chemicals, processed and unprocessed minerals, food products, wood and paper products, fish products, petroleum and natural gas// //US 74.9%, UK 4.1% (2010)// //**Imports partners?**// //US 50.4%, China 11%, Mexico 5.5% (2010)//
 * What is the GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)?**
 * How does this compare with the rest of the world?**
 * What is the GDP per capita?**
 * How does this compare with the rest of the world?**
 * What is the unemployment rate?**
 * What is the percentage of People below the poverty line?**
 * What are this country's main agricultural products?**
 * What are this country's main industries?**
 * Export partners?**

__TASK 4: POPULATION SIZE, SHAPE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY__
(2010) 33,760,000 81 years (2010) 1.6 (2010) 4.92 deaths/1,000 live births
 * What is the total population of this country?**
 * What is the average life expectancy?**
 * How many children is a woman expected to have in this country? (This is the Total Fertility Rate.)**
 * Infant Mortality rate?**

// (there was no data for 1990) //

** __TASK 5__ __WHAT IS IT LIKE TO LIVE THERE?__ **
__**NEWS EVENTS**__: There are two big events in the news in Canada today.The first one is about a man who was one of the rescuers of people from a plane crash, the
 * second one concerns** stormy weather that had forced ferries to delay on several routes, cut power to thousands of homes and caused traffic jams on the highways.

**Plane crash rescuer says he 'didn't have a plan'**
Jeremy Kerr was driving near the airport when he saw the plane crash onto a city street, nearly one km short of the runways at Vancouver International Airport. "I jumped my Jeep up onto the curb and I ran toward the aircraft," Kerr told CBC News in an interview Tuesday. Kerr said a door on the plane opened just as he got to it."There were a couple of other rescuers arriving as well, and the door sort of fell open and a gentleman kind of stumbled out, and so we instantly helped him off [the wing] and there was another gentleman that we also helped out as well."Kerr said he and the other rescuers knew they were walking on the airplane's fuel on the ground all around them and the front of the plane was intensely on fire."The flames were massive. You knew this could blow," he said. "Something really bad could happen really quickly and it was a matter of just speed. Get these people away as fast as possible."We knew it was dangerous, what's happening, but the people are moving and the fire crews weren't there yet, we didn't hear them [coming], so we had to extract them, particularly when someone was screaming from [behind us], 'The plane's going to blow up!'The fire crew took another 20 minutes to free the pilots, who were trapped by the damage to the front of the plane. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/11/01/bc-plane-crash-heros-thanked.html

B.C. storm cuts power, jams highways, stops ferries
According to the news articles, stormy weather has forced BC Ferries to delay ferries on several routes on Friday afternoon, cut power to thousands and caused havoc on the Coquihalla and other B.C. highways. Shortly after 2 p.m. BC Ferries began announcing ferries would not be sailing between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, and on several smaller routes until high winds subsided.

About 50,000 BC Hydro customers in the Lower Mainland, the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island regions were without power as the wind knocked trees onto power lines during the height of the storm around 3 p.m. Then by 3:30 p.m. the wind had subsided in some areas and some of the ferries had resumed sailing, including those on the Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay route, but sailings on many routes were running behind schedule.

The storm also brought heavy snow to the Coquihalla Highway and officials were warning drivers not to use the route because of the dangerous winter driving conditions and the large number of vehicles spinning out in the snow.

**__TERRORISM AND SAFETY:__** Global Incident Map - According to globalincidentmap.com, Canada is free of terrorism.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html
 * __TRAVEL ADVICE BY THE USA__:**According to information on Travel.State.Gov there is no specific information on travel advice for Canada.

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/IMG/fcv/conseils-aux-voyageurs_909/index.html
 * __TRAVEL ADVICE BY FRANCE:__**Canada has a highly developed, stable democracy with a vibrant economy. Tourist facilities are widely available in much of the country, but the northern and wilderness areas are less developed and facilities there can be vast distances apart.

__**EXTENSION QUESTION:**__

Yes I would like to live in Canada because It is a developed country with the following; it has a high GDP level and its employment rate is low, it has a good education system and the poverty rate is low.

__** Task 6 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE**__
Canada has been given a score of 66.4 It is ranked 46th out of 163 countries.
 * What is the EPI score given to your country?**
 * How does this compare with other countries?**
 * Which environmental issues are the biggest concern for your country?**
 * Current Issues:**

__**Task 7 Education**__

 * What percentage of the GDP is spent on education?** 4.9%
 * How does this compare with the rest of the world?** Canada is in 64th place
 * What percentage of the population is literate?** 99%
 * Is there a major difference in rates of literacy between male and female?** There is no difference
 * How many years is a person expected to attend school?** 17
 * Is there a difference between between males and females?** No, There is no difference.

__**TASK 8 GENDER EQUALITY**__
The gender equality index from the Social Watch
 * The Global Gender map**
 * Overall score -** 0.7372
 * Economic Participation and opportunity -** 0.7768
 * Educational attainment -** 0.9977
 * Health and survival -** 0.9784
 * Political empowerment -** 0.1959

Canada is ranked 139th
 * Maternal Mortality rate for Canada -** 12 deaths/100,000 live births