Geography 2010A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Central Canada, Dependency Ratio, Ecumene
31 Mar 2017
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Government of canada"s transfer program for addressing fiscal disparities among provinces. Became a federal commitment in 1957, entrenched in the constitution 1982. Ensure sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation. Equalization payments are unconditional, receiving provinces are free to spend the funds according to their own priorities. 1892 formal arrangement with christian churches to provide boarding school for aboriginal children an attempt to assimilate aboriginals into canadian society by removing them from their families and preventing them from using their native language. Resulted in a destroyed culture with lack of roots in either society. Federal government believed the children could be successful in modern society if their abandoned their culture and language and adopted christianity, learned english or french and had a basic education. Attendance was mandatory and was enforced by indian agents and federal officers. Canada"s declining natural increase rate justifies high levels of immigration.
