UNIT 1 Chapters: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 UNIT 2 UNIT 3 UNIT 4 BOOK INFOUNIT 1 Diversity and Pluralism in CanadaCHAPTER 1 Welcome to Canada! |
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Stories of citizenship |
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Pier 21 |
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Canadian Education Association |
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Immigration services and advice to newcomers |
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Manitoba Labour and Immigration: Immigration and Multiculturalism |
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A Newcomer’s Introduction to Canada |
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Citizenship and immigration fee schedules |
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Canadian immigration process game |
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For teachers |
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For students |
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Raoul Wallenberg and Nelson Mandela |
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A tribute to Raoul Wallenberg |
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Address by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on the occasion of the investiture of Nelson Rohlilahla Mandela as an Honorary Citizen of Canada |
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Nelson Mandela addresses Canadian Parliament |
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Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s citizenship test |
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CBC Television’s Greatest Canadian contest: Pierre Trudeau |
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Rights timeline and rights map |
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Stateless people: Merhan Karimi Nasseri |
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Canada’s physiographic regions and natural resources |
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Natural Resources Canada: Geological Survey of Canada |
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Natural Resources Canada: Students and Educators |
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Canada’s population density |
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Population maps |
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Total Aboriginal Identity Population by 2001 Census Subdivision |
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Proportion of Francophones, 2001 by Census Division |
CHAPTER 2 How Do You Define Citizenship? |
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Residential schools and their legacy |
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Map of francophone Manitoba |
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child |
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Richmond Public Library Canadian citizenship practice test |
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Citizens who have made contributions to the global community: Dr. Chandrasekhar Sankurathri |
CHAPTER 3 What Are Rights and Responsibilities? |
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History of human rights in Canada |
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
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Mary Two-Axe Earley |
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Manitoba Schools Question |
CHAPTER 4 What Shapes Our Identities and Cultures? |
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La Francophonie |
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Aboriginal media |
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Windspeaker |
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Turtle Island Native Network |
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Aboriginal Peoples Television Network |
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Say Magazine |
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Canadian Heritage: Arts and Culture |
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A Chronology of Canadian Film and Television |
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Aboriginal identity |
UNIT 1 UNIT 2 Chapters: 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 UNIT 3 UNIT 4 BOOK INFOUNIT 2 Democracy and Governance in Canada |
CHAPTER 5 Ideals and Institutions of Democracy |
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Democracy Watch |
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The potlatch |
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Elijah Harper’s rejection of the Meech Lake Accord |
CHAPTER 6 What Is Government? |
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Manitoba municipality profiles |
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Governance in Manitoba’s Aboriginal communities and a virtual tour of Aboriginal Canada |
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Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs: Manitoba First Nation communities |
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Virtual tour of Aboriginal Canada |
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Virtual tour of Aboriginal Canada: Manitoba |
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Federal government revenues and expenditures |
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Salaries of MPs, MLAs, MPPs, PMs, and premiers |
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Salaries: Members of Parliament and provincial and territorial legislatures |
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Indemnities, salaries, and allowances: Members of the House of Commons |
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Hansard |
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Question Period |
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House of Commons committee meetings |
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Emily Murphy and the Famous Five |
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Manitoba Public Library Web sites |
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World newspapers |
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Government of Canada Web sites |
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Manitoba Justice: Information on the law, the courts, and trials |
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Elections Canada |
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The Canada Page |
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Aboriginal youth suicide |
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Centre for Suicide Prevention |
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Turtle Island Native Network |
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Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Suicide Prevention Targeting Aboriginal People |
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Health Canada: First Nations and Inuit Health |
CHAPTER 7 How Do Laws and Regulations Affect You? |
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Rights of youth at school |
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Winnipeg’s bylaws |
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Internet downloading and levies | |
Canadian copyright levy on blank audio recording media: FAQs |
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Copyright Board’s private copying 2003-2004 decision |
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Manitoba’s Human Rights Code and the Manitoba Human Rights Commission |
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Environmental Youth Corps (EYC) |
CHAPTER 8 How Do Governments Make Policy? |
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National Citizens Coalition |
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
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Ladybug Foundation |
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Stages a bill must pass through to become Manitoba law |
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Non-confidence vote that brought down the Liberal minority government in 2005 |
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Different kinds of federal bills |
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Federal and provincial contact information |
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Democracy Watch |
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Parliament of Canada |
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Province of Manitoba |
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Youth wings of major political parties |
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CPC Energy (Conservative Party of Canada) |
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Manitoba Young New Democrats |
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Young Liberals of Canada |
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Green Party of Canada—Youth Wing |
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Pollsters and polling |
CHAPTER 9 How Do Citizens Elect Governments? |
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Elections Manitoba electoral districts |
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What happened to protesting members of the Edible Ballot Society and other strange election facts |
CHAPTER 10 How Does the Judicial System Work? |
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Youth justice in Canada |
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Report of the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Inquiry |
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Onashowewin |
CHAPTER 11 Citizenship in Action |
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Preamble to the Clarity Act |
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Stand-offs between Aboriginal activists and police |
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at Oka, Quebec |
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at Ipperwash, Ontario |
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at Gustafsen Lake, BC |
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National Video Competition |
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“Big Mountie Is Watching You,” warns the CCLA |
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Ombudsman Manitoba: Youth rights on the job, at school, and in the justice system |
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Volunteer sites and service groups in your Manitoba community |
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Charity Village |
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Manitoba Municipality Profiles |
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Logos of clubs and organizations |
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association |
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Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties |
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Leaders Today |
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Free the Children |
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Centre for Social Justice |
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Habitat for Humanity |
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Rotary International |
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Canadian 4-H Council |
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Unions in Canada |
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Essential Services Act |
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Rates of unionization among Canadian men and women |
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Assisted suicide |
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Sue Rodriguez |
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Marcel Tremblay |
UNIT 1 UNIT 2 UNIT 3 Chapters: 12 / 13 / 14 UNIT 4 BOOK INFOUNIT 3 Canada in the Global Context |
CHAPTER 12 Canada and the Global Economy |
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Statistics Canada as a source for economic and business data |
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Tommy Douglas’s most famous parable: the “mouseland story” |
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Where your tax dollar goes |
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“McBoycott” to protest US tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber |
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Canada’s trading partners in imports and exports |
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Manitoba NPOs and charities that involve youth |
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Youth in Philanthropy Canada |
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Community Foundations of Canada |
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NonprofitsCan |
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Action Without Borders |
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Socially responsible corporations |
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Industry Canada: Corporate social responsibility |
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Canadian Business for Social Responsibility |
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Corporate Knights |
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Trade data from Industry Canada |
CHAPTER 13 Canada in the Global Community |
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The Righteous Among the Nations |
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Evolution, human intelligence, and the myth of race |
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International Criminal Court |
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Canadian Race Relations Foundation |
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Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada |
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Zahra Kazemi |
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Application form for CIDA’s Global Classroom Initiative |
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Canadian Council for International Cooperation |
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Project Love |
CHAPTER 14 Global Conflicts and Global Interdependence |
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Canadian International Development Agency’s Butterfly 208 contest |
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UN Water for Life Decade (2005-2015) |
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Inuit and First Nations water crisis |
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Human Development Index data and the Annual Human Development Report |
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Population clock |
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Education and Literacy |
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Project Love |
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Literacy Partners of Manitoba |
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Statistics Canada: census data |
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Lester Pearson |
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Nobel Peace Prize presentation speech
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His acceptance speech |
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Canada’s contribution to Afghanistan |
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Faces and names of Canadian soldiers who have been wounded or killed |
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech to Canadian troops in March 2006 |
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Environment Canada’s Youth and the Environment Web site |
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Environmental organizations |
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Greenpeace |
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United Nations Environment Programme (Tunza) |
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Internet resources for information on world events |
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Foreign Affairs Canada and CIDA |
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UN’s Cyberschoolbus |
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Internet Public Library |
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Millennium Development Goals |
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Mine Ban Treaty |
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International Campaign to Ban Landmines |
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States not party to the treaty |
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Information from Foreign Affairs Canada |
UNIT 1 UNIT 2 UNIT 3 UNIT 4 Chapter: 17 BOOK INFOUNIT 4 Canada: Opportunities and Challenges |
CHAPTER 17 Pioneers of Tomorrow
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