Over time, elements of the cultures of Canada's Aboriginal peoples and immigrant populations have become incorporated into mainstream Canadian culture.

Canada's federal government has influenced Canadian culture with programs, laws and institutions.

Trudeau is credited with introducing Canada's " Multiculturalism Policy " on October 8, 1971 recognizing that while Canada was a country of two official languages, it did not have a single unitary culture but rather recognized the plurality of cultures-" a multicultural policy within a bilingual framework ".

Jack Iyerak Anawak, Member of Parliament from Nunatsiaq, Nunavut, suggested the name Nanuq polar bear in honour of Canada's Inuit people and their northern culture ; however, this culturally meaningful proposal went largely unnoticed beside the popular " toonie ".

At the Ligue d ' Action française, Groulx and his colleagues hoped to inspire revival of the French language and French Canadian culture, but also to create a think tank and public space of reflection, so that the French Canadian nation's elites would find ways to remedy French Canada's underdevelopment and exclusion from big business.

He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of " staples " such as fur, fish, wood, wheat, mined metals and fossil fuels.

As the head of the University of Toronto's political economy department, he worked to build up a cadre of Canadian scholars so that universities would not continue to rely as heavily on British or American-trained professors unfamiliar with Canada's history and culture.

He also immersed himself in Canada's culture and came to particularly love hockey, rarely missing a game played by the Ottawa Senators.

Much of the country's tourism is centered around Canada's four largest cities, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa, well known for their culture, diversity, as well as the many national parks and historic sites.

Further, given Canada's founding as a French colony and the constant and consistent influence of French-Canadian culture and society on Canada's historical development, it becomes increasingly difficult to determine whether Canada could exist at all without Quebec.

Canadian popular culture is influenced by Canada's British and French ancestry.

Some aspects of English-Canadian popular culture have been influenced by Canada's British ancestry, from the period in the 19th century and early 20th century when Canada was a dominion of the British Empire.

As Canada's independence from Britain increased during this time, English-Canadian popular culture has been influenced by the pop culture of the United States and by the diverse cultures of the huge immigrant communities which came to Canada.

Some aspects of French-Canadian popular culture have been influenced by the earlier period of Canada's history, in the 17th and 18th centuries, when Canada was a French colony.

The baby boomers who have since dominated Canada's culture tend to view the period as Canada's halcyon days.

It is also home First Nations School of Toronto, a cultural survival school that places heavy emphasis on aboriginal values and culture, and the current location of SEED Alternative Secondary School, Canada's first public alternative school.

In Toronto, the Caribana parade and festival was launched in 1967 as a celebration of Caribbean culture, and as a gift from Canada's West Indian community in tribute to the Centennial year.

Katimavik launched a program called Katimavik North which focused upon pairing groups of youth between the ages of 18 and 25 that were half-composed of young Canadians from the territories and half-composed of young Canadians from the southern provinces ; the groups then lived in both Canada's north and south in order to learn from each culture.

In addition to awards for professional excellence, the CAJ presents a Code of Silence Award to celebrate " Canada's rich bureaucratic culture of secrecy.

Exhibits were devoted to Canada's contribution to sport, arts and culture, development, peacekeeping, and science.

Canada's Boxing Day has often been compared with the American Super Saturday, the Saturday before Christmas.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

Canada's political history has also had an influence on Canadian spelling.

Dalhousie has consistently been ranked one of Canada's top universities.

An exception is Vidéotron, Canada's third-largest cable company, which has not added Fox News Channel to its lineup.

Heinz Canada's head office is in North York, Ontario and it also has operations in St. Marys, Ontario ; Calgary, Alberta ; and Montreal, Quebec.

Mali established its embassy in Canada in 1978 at 50 avenue Golburn in Ottawa, with its 1st appointed ambassador Zana Ousmane Dao, while Canada's embassy in Mali has been open since 1995.

:* The federal government of Canada has a bicameral parliament, and each of Canada's 10 provinces has a unicameral parliament.

Many agency reports, books and web pages list the red wolf as Canis rufus but recent genetic research has opened a new debate about the taxonomy of both the red wolf and Canada's eastern wolf ( Canis lycaon ).

SFU has been rated as Canada's best comprehensive university ( in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ) in the annual rankings of Canadian universities in Maclean's magazine since 1991.

The majority of recent population growth in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas ( Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, and Greater Vancouver ) has occurred in non-core municipalities, although this trend has already reversed itself in Toronto, where a building boom has begun to take place.

Canada's parliament has instituted the Public Sector Integrity Office ( Canada ), a parliamentary office for the protection for whistleblowers who speak up against abuses in government.

Furtado's work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including 2 Grammy Awards, 10 Juno Awards, 3 MuchMusic Video Awards and a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

He has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

Safdie has designed six of Canada's principal public institutions as well as many other notable projects around the world, including the Salt Lake City Main Public Library, the Khalsa Heritage Centre in India, the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in Singapore, the United States Institute of Peace headquarters in Washington, DC, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Some governors general, their staff, government publications, and constitutional scholars like Edward McWhinney and C. E. S. Franks have, however, referred to the position of governor general as that of Canada's head of state, though sometimes qualilfying the assertion with de facto or effective ; Franks has hence recommended that the governor general be named officially as the head of state.

The monarchy has thus been described as the underlying principle of Canada's institutional unity and the monarch as a " guardian of constitutional freedoms " whose " job is to ensure that the political process remains intact and is allowed to function.

Out of Canada's three most prominent political parties, neither the Liberal Party nor the Conservative Party is officially in favour of abolishing the monarchy ( though the latter makes support for constitutional monarchy a founding principle in its policy declaration ) and the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has no official position on the role of the Crown.

She stated that she had chosen to attend the event because the city has been home to one of Canada's most ambitious environmental reclamation programs: " When people ask if there's hope ( for the environment ), I say, if Sudbury can do it, so can you.

The Conference Board of Canada's Index of Consumer Confidence has been ongoing since 1980.

West Montrose straddles the Grand River, one of Canada's historic rivers. Together with nearby St. Jacobs, Ontario and Elmira, Ontario, West Montrose lies in the heart of an area where there is a historically large settlement of Old Order Mennonites noted for their traditional customs, dress and use of horse and buggies.

Since the 1960s, most proponents of Canadian nationalism have advocated a civic nationalism due to Canada's cultural diversity that specifically has sought to equalize citizenship, especially for Québécois, who historically faced assimilationist pressure from English Canadian-dominated governments.