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History of Canada !
Canada is world's second largest country occupying the most area of Northern North America. Canada has her land borders with the United States to the south and northwest.

The land of Canada was populated for millennia by a mixture of groups of native people. Commencement from the late 15th century, British and French travel around and later on established there. At the Atlantic coast, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War.

In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies from side to side amalgamation, Canada came into being as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accumulation of additional provinces and territories and a procedure of growing sovereignty from the United Kingdom.

A confederation including 10 provinces and 3 territories, Canada is a constitutional dominion and a parliamentary democracy, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a multicultural and bilingual country, with both French and English as official languages at the national level. Industrially advanced and developed, Canada maintains an expanded economy that is deeply dependent upon its rich natural resources and upon foreign trade predominantly with the United States, with which Canada has had a long and multifaceted association. It is a member of the NATO, G8, the Commonwealth of Nations and the United Nations.

From January 9 to January 18, 2009; Canadian Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenny visited Pakistan and India. He said in a press conference that Pakistan and Canada, as well as India and Canada are enjoying pleasant relations and share a common of awareness on important international issues of common interest.

The minister said three countries have the technological ability, the resources, the infrastructure and the manpower to bring about a change. There is a want to give material to bilateral economic relations to perform the hopes and objectives of our people for success.

The Canadian Minister, Jason Kenny said that the intention of his visit to Pakistan and India is to discover the opportunity of growth of more close and pleasant relations between the countries for taking skilled and semi-skilled labor, for the growth of construction, agriculture, and industrial sectors in some provinces of Canada.

He further added that India and Pakistan has an enormous potential for labor force and skilled workers which is required in Canada. So Canada will intake about 0.6 million immigrants in the years 2009 and 2010.

On the question of 'long Immigration times' from the different communities of Pakistan and India, he assured them that Canadian High Commissions is working on this in India, Pakistan and Philippines to reduce the immigration processing time from these countries. He added that new staff at Visa offices of Pakistan, India and Philippines has hired to expedite the immigration process and give a relief to citizens of these countries who are fed up from a long waiting time of immigration to Canada.
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