18. CANADA

Government

Canada is an independent federal parliamentary system with the Queen Elizabeth II. as a head of the state. She is represented in Canada by the Governor-General. The countries supreme body is the Federal Parliament consisting of two houses – The House of Commons and the Senate. The leading figure in political life is the Prime Minister. Canada is divided into 10 provinces and 2 territories. The biggest province is the Quebec City (Others are Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan), territories are Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. The capital of Canada is Ottawa. The biggest city is Toronto and other large cities are Montreal, Vancouver, Hamilton and Winnipeg. Canada is the member of many international organizations.

Economy

Canada belongs to the G-8 countries. Canada has rich sources of raw materials. The most important part of its economy is mining: - uranium, zinc, coal, metal (the main mining provence is Alberta). It is also important producer of gold, silver and aluminium. Other important branches of economy are agriculture. Canada is the second largest exporter of wheat. 80 % of farmland is in parairies. Other agriculture products are: oats, vegatables – potatoes, etc. In animal production are very important cattle breeding and fishing. Engineering: cars, ships are built on the banks of the Great Lakes, in Montreal and Toronto. Heavy industry is situated around the Great Lakes.

Places of intrest

Canada is famous for its beautiful nature, especially near the Great Lakes and the Slave and Bear Lake. Visitors to Canada usually want to see the Niagara Falls. The Canadian part is called the Horseshoe Fall and it is 49 high and almost 1 km wide. Canada has about 30 national parks. The most known is Jasper national park in Alberta. In those parks people can admire the scenery or they can walk, climb, go sihgtseeing, go fishing or go skiing there.

Toronto

It lies on the coast of Lake Ontario. There are many interesting buildings, not only the Canadian Tower. Very interesting is new Toronto City Hall. This city is known as one of most competitors of National Hockey League (NHL).

Would you like to visit Canada and why?

It isn’t my big dream to visit Canada. I would like to visit other interesting countries. But I like to see Niagara Falls. I saw them on TV and on some photos and it is very wonderful place. It must be amazing to stay by this falls and to look at them and at local nature.