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    imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands," – Kofi Annan. Canada had assimilated an absurd “notion of Canada’s roots as a ‘white settler society’,” thus shunning non-whites as a lower class. Minorities and immigrants were especially treated unfairly throughout the 20th century and labelled as ‘enemy alien’ as a consequence of the many wars taken place during that time period. They suffered

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    begins with a statement – “the great show of power made at first by the Portuguese in the East and West Indies inspired profound admiration in the minds of the Indians”. Le Jeune’s intent is to impose the same assertion upon the Aboriginals in Lower Canada. Through the course of time spent with the Hurons he learnt their language, he created a relationship with the Hurons and securing their trust by joining them on their seasonal hunter-gatherer practice, “we never see in this world men so good as thou

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    Over the past decade in Canada juvenile prostitution has been an increasingly prominent issue in society. There are many organizations that have conducted research on this controversial matter, many conducting research to provide the public with a more in depth examination about how this is affecting Canadian society. These studies often focus on the reasons why youth become involved in and remain in prostitution, the affects it has on them and on society, as well as programs that could be implemented

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    Canadian government, in many cases, the treaties were not as favourable or beneficial to the natives as they were to the state. The natives were forced to sign the treaties and even when the treaties were signed, the Canadian government did not keep the promises that the Natives were entitled to. Although the treaties were signed, the lack of interest in the aboriginal communities by the government caused dissatisfaction in the native communities. The growing disappointment in government led to retaliations

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    Japanese-Canadian Internment WWII During the beginning of WWII, there were a lot of Japanese Canadians living in Canada, all of which were either second-generation Canadians, Japanese people who had taken Canadian citizenship or those who were still Japanese nationals. These Japanese Canadians mainly inhabited British Columbia and smaller villages in the coastal regions of the west coast. Prior to their internment, Japanese Canadians suffered great prejudice, discrimination and racism. White people

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    Canada has been home to Aboriginals for centuries, who play an imperative role in the history of Canada. Culture and tradition have been brought into this country with the help of millions of Aboriginals. Aboriginals have been known to be very strong supporters of their culture, and heritage and take very high importance towards it. They are very traditional people, and have been looking up to their Ancestral ways for centuries. The treaty relationship between Canada and First Nations has caused

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    The GE Energy Management Initiative (A) By taking the position as Raj Bhatt, Business Development manager of GE Canada, I am comfortable and confident that energy efficiency is an attractive industry and business opportunity. What makes Raj Bhatt believe that the Energy Efficiency projects will be successful in Canada is that the project helps not only the ESCo, which conducts the performance-based contracting, but also the customers, who are more aware of the benefits of Energy Efficiency project

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    Magazine Dispute 1 It is highly probable that the desire to protect the culture of Canada by the Canadian Government was not genuine. This is because the magazine industry is only a small portion of the entire Canadian mass media. Hence, the situation leads us to question, what is the hidden intention and the actual motive behind Canadian Government backing its magazine industry? If the Canadian Government was genuine about protecting its culture from US, I believe that there are more effective

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    been debated since which calls for action of changes. In this research I will try to explain how and why changes are needed for securities regulation in Canada in order to bring our capital market compete-able with the rest of the world while in the same time provides high securities for all the stakeholders and backed by the federal government. Major obstacles of changes in the last 10 years In my opinion, there are four obstacles which makes

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    Culture of Ontario Government: Ontario has a different type of government than us. To start that they have a different “headquarters” than us. Their ‘headquarters’ is in Toronto. As if ours is in Washington, D.C, as we all know is in the white house. They started their government in 1867 or before. We started ours in 1776-1789. 1789 was when the USA came together as an independent country. That is when we started creating a new constitution, and establishing its national government. In order to start

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