Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Ecotopia, Central Canada, Critical Role
15 Dec 2013
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Canada"s strength is its regional diversity and ensuing political struggle to balance regional interests with national ones. Canada evolved from a small country consisting of 4 former british colonies to the second-largest country in the world with a strong possibility of further territorial gains in the unclaimed arctic ocean. Its long-term future is problematic because of threat of low-cost imports and longer-term threat of oil supplies diminishing and prices rising. Quebec remains canada"s second region, st. lawrence river has provided a transportation link to the great lakes and rest of the world: extensive hydroelectric resources obtained by land acquisitions from federal government. Its culture shaped by historical relations with france and by its. French-speaking inhabitants is a cultural anomaly in north america: remains recipient of largest equalization payments suggests economically all is not well. Ecotopia: narrow band along pacific coast from northern california to.
