GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: North American Free Trade Agreement, Maple Syrup, Milk Marketing Board
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Canada"s heartland region is located in the great lakes-st. lawrence lowland, consisting of southern ontario, southern quebec. The country"s hinterland regions consist of slow-growing atlantic canada, fast-growing western canada and british. Columbia, and the resource frontier in the territorial north. Due to shifting economies associated with population and technological growth, Canada"s economic future may well lie in balancing the interests of a knowledge-based economy and the traditional resource-based economy. Factors of additional importance for canada"s economic future include: - the evolving new global order as influenced by globalization. The continued importance of trade between canada and the us - the growing significance of ties with pacific rim nations with japan and china. In 1931, 1 in 3 canadians lived on a farm, and the produce from 1 farmer could feed 10 people - now, 1 in 46 lives on a farm, and each farmer is capable of feeding more than.