Federal state of North America, limited to the south by the United States, to the west by the Pacific Ocean, the North-West by Alaska, north by the Arctic Ocean and the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada extends on 9 ' 976 ' 139 km2. It has as a Ottawa capital.
The existence of a cultural mosaic returns complex any attempt at definition of an identity Canadian and led to a fundamental question: how to create a homogeneous whole with a heterogeneous settlement, on a double linguistic bottom, English and French? Canada, Federal state since the Act of 1867, is often close to the bursting. And yet Kanada, name of Iroquois origin, means “community”.