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Canada's banks have high service levels and investments in technology. A report released by the office of the Minister of Finance in 2002 states "Canada has the highest number of ATMs per capita in the world and benefits from the highest penetration levels of electronic channels such as debit cards, Internet banking and telephone banking". [4]
Canada's Governors-General, 1847-1878: Biography and Constitutional Evolution (U of Toronto Press, 2006). online [dead link ] Parker, Roy. Uprooted: the shipment of poor children to Canada, 1867-1917 (2008) online; Smith, Andrew. "Patriotism, self-interest and the 'Empire effect': Britishness and British decisions to invest in Canada, 1867 ...
Money laundering in Canada is a problem described by professionals in 2019 as a "national crisis," and which has attracted international attention. [1] As of July 2022, a public inquiry is currently being held to gauge the extent of the problem.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's anti-money laundering agency is looking to introduce a system that gives financial institutions and other businesses real-time feedback through scorecards, two sources ...
Canada's economy is considered to have been in recession for two full years in the early 1990s, specifically from April 1990 to April 1992. [7] [8] [a] Canada's recession began about four months before that of the US, and was deeper, likely because of higher inflationary pressures in Canada, which prompted the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates to levels 5 to 6 percentage points higher ...
The Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto. The economy of Ontario is diversified.Ontario is the largest economy in Canada, making up around 38% of Canadian GDP. [1] [2] Though manufacturing plays an important role in Ontario's economy responsible for 12.6% of Ontario's GDP, the service sector makes up the bulk, 77.9%, of the economy. [3]
The UK's influential Beveridge Report of 1942 and its Canadian counterpart, commissioned by Mackenzie King—the 1943 Report on Social Security for Canada by Leonard Marsh—called for the creation of a postwar welfare state, a comprehensive system of social security with full employment that would ultimately end all poverty. [73]
Canada is the United States' largest oil supplier and the fifth-largest energy producing country in the world. Canada provides about 16% of U.S. oil imports and 14% of total U.S. consumption of natural gas. The United States and Canada's national electricity grids are linked, and both countries share hydropower facilities on the western borders.