Canada 
Facts
Population:
31,592,805 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
18.95% (male 3,067,102; female 2,918,839)
15-64 years:
68.28% (male 10,846,151; female 10,725,800)
65 years and over:
12.77% (male 1,715,071; female 2,319,842) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.99% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
11.21 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
7.47 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
6.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.74 male(s)/female
total population:
0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
5.02 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
79.56 years
male:
76.16 years
female:
83.13 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.6 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.3% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
49,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
400 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Canadian(s)
adjective:
Canadian
Ethnic groups:
British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 42%, Protestant 40%, other 18%
Languages:
English 59.3% (official), French 23.2% (official), other 17.5%
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
97% (1986 est.)
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $774.7 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4.3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $24,800 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
3%
industry:
31%
services:
66% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.8%
highest 10%:
23.8% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.6% (2000)
Labor force:
16.1 million (2000)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 74%, manufacturing 15%, construction 5%, agriculture 3%, other 3% (2000)
Unemployment rate:
6.8% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$126.1 billion
expenditures:
$125.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $14.8 billion (2000)
Industries:
processed and unprocessed minerals, food products, wood and paper products, transportation equipment, chemicals, fish products, petroleum and natural gas
Industrial production growth rate:
4.5% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
567.193 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
26.38%
hydro:
60%
nuclear:
12.31%
other:
1.31% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
497.532 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
42.911 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
12.953 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, barley, oilseed, tobacco, fruits, vegetables; dairy products; forest products; fish
Exports:
$272.3 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
motor vehicles and parts, newsprint, wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, machinery, natural gas, aluminum, telecommunications equipment, electricity
Exports - partners:
US 86%, Japan 3%, UK, Germany, South Korea, Netherlands, China (1999)
Imports:
$238.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, crude oil, chemicals, motor vehicles and parts, durable consumer goods, electricity
Imports - partners:
US 76%, Japan 3%, UK, Germany, France, Mexico, Taiwan, South Korea (1999)
Debt - external:
$1.9 billion (2000)
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.3 billion (1999)
Currency:
Canadian dollar (CAD)
Currency code:
CAD
Exchange rates:
Canadian dollars per US dollar - 1.5032 (January 2001), 1.4851 (2000), 1.4857 (1999), 1.4835 (1998), 1.3846 (1997), 1.3635 (1996)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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(Anti-consumerist magzine), Vancouver
http://www.adbusters.org
(conservative), Calgary
http://www.calgaryherald.com/
Canadian Business
(Business monthly), Toronto
Canadian Consumer
(Bimonthly), Ottawa
Canadian Forum
(Liberal monthly), Toronto
(News agency), Toronto
http://www.cp.org/english/hp.htm
Canadian, The
(Supplement to Toronto Star), Toronto
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The author discusses Canadian leadership, climate change, the Northwest Passage dispute, and a host of other issues concerning Canada and the northern hemisphere.
"We accepted that narcotics are both dangerous and illegal. What we argued, though, was that because of those facts, Insite is a crucial access point to health care and treatment. And the judge agreed."
What is odd is how a top government minister could be intimately involved with someone with such a shady past without the relationship being red-flagged by Canadian internal security agencies.
Keeling is the son of climate change pioneer Charles David Keeling, who began atmospheric CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, in 1958. He met with Am Johal to talk about climate change and highway expansion.
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