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Area of Study: Belonging

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How? Agreements Arrangements Facilitate trade by streamlining conformity assessment procedures for a wide range off telecommunications and telecommunications related products

When? September 25th 2013

Where? Canada

Why? Applied to mitigate against health and environmental risks, to prevent deceptive practices, and to reduce transaction costs in business by providing common reference points for notions of 'quality', 'safety', 'authenticity', 'good practice', and 'sustainability'

What? Products that are tested and certified before exportation can enter the importing parties territories directly without having to undergo similar conformity assessment procedures once they arrive

Who? Canada Republic of Iceland Principality of Liechtenstein Kingdom of Norway

Example: Industry Canada's Mutual Recognition

How? If individuals are non-residents for tax puposes, which is usually the case, they need to only report and pay tax on their income earned in Canada

Why? Canada's rules for taxing non-resident real estate investors are generally not of revision, and the Canadian Revenue agency is adequately empowered to enforce the rules.

When? August 2010

Where? Asia and North America (Canada)

What? Businessmen in Hong Kong and Shanghai who own houses in Vancouver not paying taxes on their foreign business income in Canada

Who? Honk Kong Shanghai Canada

Example: Taxation of Foreign Investment inn Canadian Real Estate

How? Anyone in Canada and any Canadian outside Canada is required to freeze any property in their possession or control belonging to the previous Iraqi Government

Why? UN imposed comprehensive sanctions on the regime of Saddam Hussein in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

When? August 2 1990

Where? Iraq

What? Prohibition on the exports of arms and related material to anyone in Iraq

Who? Iraq Saddam Hussein UN Canada Canadians

Example: Canadian Sanctions on Iraq

How? It would affect Canada and South Korea

Why? They did it for Canada's safety and to regulate the weapons being entered and leaving Canada.

When? October 14 2006

Where? Canada and North Korea and South Korea

What? Prohibition to the export of all arms and related material, with exception of small arms and light weapons and their relaxed materials

Who? Canada North Korea Travellers Security Council 1718 Committees

Example: Arms embargo with North Korea

How? Canada attempts to attract up to 285,000 new immigrants in 2015

Example: Programs

Why? For prospective immigrants, this report helps to paint a fuller picture of what can be expected

When? Operation scheduled to come in January 2015

Where? All over Canada

What? Allows temporary foreign workers with at least one year of Canadian work experience to apply for Permanent Resident Visa

How? Without these things, the conventional wisdom goes and you're not getting much benefit from solar energy.

Why? Government wants more efficient ways of using energy.

When? Solar panels were invented in 1839 by Alexandre Edmond Becquerel and were then encouraged to be used by everyone to help save the environment.

Where? You need to live in a sunny climate and most importantly you need the solar panels facing south

What? Create energy and it saves electrical energy.

Who? -Home owners -Electricity Companies -The Government

Example: Solar Panels

Example : Trans Pacific Partnership

WHO? Skilled Economic Immigration Family Sponsorship Refugee and Humanitarian Programs

How? It benefits Canada by : •Agricultural and Agri-food Products •Fish and Seafood •Forestry and Value-added Wood Products •Services and Financial Services •Industrial Goods and Consumer Products

Why? Its a free trade agreement that could turn this into a potential single market for many businesses.

When? The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement was drafted on October 5th 2015.

Where? The TPP trade agreement was made in the United States.

What? An agreement that will increase Canada’s foothold in the Asia-Pacific, a region that is expected to comprise two-thirds of the world’s middle class by 2030, and one-half of global GDP by 2050.

WHO? 12 Countries •Australia •Brunei Darussalam •Chile •Japan •Malaysia •Mexico •New Zealand •Peru •Singapore •United States of America •Vietnam

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