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Welcome to Canada! We are going to talk about: 1、Government 2、Economy 3、Education System 4、Food Government Canada inherited its system of government from the United Kingdom. Take the Parliament of Canada for example, it is the legislative branch of Canada, made up of three branches,which together make the laws of Canada. They are 1) Government,2) an elected House of Commons,3)an appointed Senate. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet are members of Parliament. Economy Canada is the 9th largest economy in the world based on GDP (current prices, US dollars) and the 14th largest based on GDP . Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the Canadian economy has re-emerged as one of the strongest advanced economies in the world. In 2010,Canada’s GDP growth (constant prices, national currency) stood at 3.071 percent – the highest it had been since 2004. Canada’s Export, Import and Trade The US is Canada’s largest and most important trade partner. In 2009, 75.02 percent of Canadian exports were directed to the US, while 51.1 percent of imports came from the US.The energy trade is another critical element in US-Canada trade. Canada is the US’s largest oil supplier, accounting for 16 percent of US oil imports and 14 percent of US’s natural gas consumption. Besides sharing hydropower facilities on the western borders, national electricity grids in Canada and the US are also linked with each other. Former Education System In the 17th century education was usually an informal processin which skills and values were passed from one generation to the next by parents, relatives and other siblings. Four hundred years later, informal learning has become an adjunct extensive systems of formal schooling under the jurisdiction of provincial governments. Current Education System Canadian children attend kindergarten for one or two years at the age of four or five on a voluntary basis. All children begin Grade One at about six years of age. The school year no