British Columbia's provincial parks system is the second largest parks system in Canada ( the largest is Canada's National Parks system ).

The largest class action suit to date in Canada was settled in 2005 after Nora Bernard initiated efforts that led to an estimated 79, 000 survivors of Canada's residential school system suing the Canadian government.

The constitution outlines Canada's system of government, as well as the civil rights of all Canadian citizens and those in Canada.

It outlined Canada's system of government, which combines Britain's Westminster model of parliamentary government with division of sovereignty ( federalism ).

With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s.

As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister ( PMO ), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3, 100 other positions.

** GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.

Medicare () is the unofficial name for Canada's publicly funded universal health insurance system.

The primary reason for Canada's relatively low standing rests on the relatively high educational level of its population, particularly as compared to France, rather than on any features of its health system.

Nonetheless, Canada's Medicare system covered the health care costs of those mothers affected.

Canada's health system is ranked 30th in the world, suggesting the logic of the doctor shortage defies the statistics.

Canada's Medicare system and most of the UK's NHS general practitioner and dental services, which are systems where health care is delivered by private business with partial or total government funding, fit this broader definition, as do the health care systems of most of Western Europe.

* Barbara Wierzbicki, " Icon: Canada's system for schools ", InfoWorld, Volume 5 Number 45 ( 7 November 1983 ), pg.

These powers are greater than what was typical under the common law and under a system of government that, influenced by Canada's mother country the United Kingdom, was based upon Parliamentary supremacy.

Among the awards of the Canadian honours system, the Order of Canada comes second only to membership in the Order of Merit, which is within the personal gift of Canada's monarch.

It is one of 42 in Canada's system of national parks.

The Reform Party suggested that Canada's government-funded universal health insurance system be replaced by a two-tier private and public health insurance system.

This convention makes Quebec, with about one-quarter of Canada's population, overrepresented on the Supreme Court, but is needed because Quebec uses civil law rather than the common law used in the rest of Canada, and it is thus necessary to have enough judges who have worked in the civil law system on the Supreme Court to allow panels to be created to judge cases arising from that system of law.

The Fathers of Confederation viewed the system of constitutional monarchy as a bulwark against any potential fracturing of the Canadian federation, and the Crown remains central to Canada's federalism.

Thus legislation which destroyed the citizen's ability to debate, to assemble or to associate freely would be contrary to Canada's democratic parliamentary system of government.

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.

The Ottawa Citizen described the national response to his marathon as " one of the most powerful outpourings of emotion and generosity in Canada's history ".

In 2011 it was described as " William Osler Health System is one of Canada's largest community hospital corporations serving the growing and diverse communities of Brampton, Etobicoke and surrounding areas in the Greater Toronto Area ( GTA ).

He is a member of the Order of Canada, the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and has been described as the best Canadian-born quarterback to play in the CFL.

Founded in 1829 by Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada Sir John Colborne, UCC is the oldest independent school in the province of Ontario, the third oldest in the country, and is described as one of Canada's most prestigious preparatory schools, having many of Canada's most powerful and wealthy as graduates.

The party described itself as Canada's " fourth party " in the 1980s, but it has since been displaced by new parties such as the Bloc Québécois and the Green Party of Canada.

During the First World War, the adjacent Barriefield Military Camp ( now CFB Kingston ) was established in 1914 ; Fort Henry served as a facility for holding German, Austrian and Turkish POWs and some civilian internees, among them Ukrainian immigrants described as " enemy aliens " during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920.

In 1989, Abbott directed Huge Jumbo Comedy Thing, a show starring a troupe called the Maroons that CHOM-FM described as " Canada's answer to Monty Python ".

Simply Saucer formed in Hamilton, Canada in 1973 and have been called " Canada's first proto-punk band ", blending garage rock, krautrock, psychedelia and other influences to produce a sound that was later described as having a " frequent punk snarl.

The Crown is regarded as a corporation, with the monarch, vested as she is with all powers of state, at the centre of a construct in which the power of the whole is shared by multiple institutions of government acting under the sovereign's authority ; the Crown has thus been described as the underlying principle of Canada's institutional unity, with the executive formally called the Queen-in-Council, the legislature the Queen-in-Parliament, and the courts as the Queen on the Bench.

He described as " unfortunate " Canada's decision to support an United Nations resolution critical of Israel in October 2000, and later argued that Canada should have abstained.

Baird's proposal has been met with approval from Canada's oilpatch executives, who described them as the toughest emission regulations in the world, and who feared that more stringent standards would stifle oil sands exploration.

" Canada's actions were immediately praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who described them as " bold leadership.

The crowd's reaction to de Gaulle's phrase was emotional, and has been described as frenzied, but it sparked controversy with English-Canadians, as many were outraged at the implied threat to Canada's territorial integrity.

Although they had only one Top 40 hit, " Claire " in 1995, they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and unconventional rock bands, a band whose eclectic take on pop and rock music has been described both as iconic and iconoclastic.

It was on B ' nai Brith Canada's recommendation that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was awarded B ' nai B ' rith International's Presidential Gold Medal to honor what it described as his commitment to the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

For example, a report from civic administrators in Canada's Saskatoon in 2001 described the cameras as " simply an enforcement tool used to penalize motorists that fail to stop for red traffic signals.

He has been described by national media as " one of Canada's most notorious white supremacists ".

The Canadian Hit 30 was described as Canada's only CHR hit countdown, but is now in direct competition with Canada's Top 20 Countdown and The Canadian Top 20.

The library stated that it had received a legal opinion stating the workshop as described could contravene Canada's Criminal Code, but would not make the opinion public.

Doucet has been described as " the French-Canadian equivalent of Jaime Jarrin " and even as " Canada's Vin Scully ", but it has been noted that " because he broadcast games in French, few of the people who cast final votes for admission to Cooperstown have heard Doucet work ", and that the language barrier might keep Doucet out of Cooperstown ; at least one observer has suggested that Doucet has failed to win the Award because he is not an American.

In 2009 a campaign was launched against the sale of part of the Haliburton Scout Reserve, a 20 square kilometre ( 5000 acre ) Scout camp located east of Haliburton, Ontario described as Canada's largest Scout Camp.