Liberals, Conservatives spar over tackling gun violence in Canada – The Global Herald – The Global Herald

Posted: September 4, 2021 at 5:50 am

CBC News published this video item, entitled Liberals, Conservatives spar over tackling gun violence in Canada below is their description.

Ontario Liberal candidate Bill Blair claims Conservative Leader Erin OToole has made significant and compelling promises to the gun lobby.

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Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the worlds second-largest country by total area.

Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the worlds longest bi-national land border. Canadas capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.

As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.

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