NORTH AMERICA (CANADA)

 North America has rich and varied resources. Although it contains less
than 10 percent of the world’s population, it has an extraordinarily
high proportion of the world’s resource wealth. It produces a
substantial percentage of the world’s oil, iron ore, steel, copper,
lead, and zinc. With a significant percentage of the world’s coal and
oil output and electrical power production, it possesses the critical
elements of modern industry.
 Canada faces a globalized market served by global supply chains in goods
and services, within which an increasingly integrated North American
economy has to compete.
 Canada advancements in technology and the Internet have
“fundamentally changed” how Canadians and Canadian businesses
interact, as well as how they produce, distribute and consume goods and
services in international market.

HOW MEDIA SUPPORT GLOBAL INTEGRATIONS AND CANADA ENGAGEMENT IN GLOBAL ECONOMY
 Through worldwide news broadcasts, television programming, new
technology, film, and music, the mass media are now considered as having
a vital role in increasing globalization and allowing cultural
interaction and numerous flows of information across countries.
 Canada is one of the most globally integrated countries in the world,
with a highly advanced system of communications and information
technology, a government that is active in international organizations,
an economy that is dependent on trade, a population that travels abroad
frequently, and a society composed of individuals from a myriad of
cultural backgrounds.
 Canada uses trade promotion and advertising through media as crucial
factor in promoting manufactured products as well as related
professional services in Canada to develop and maintain a sales-oriented
corporate website. 
 Over the past century, Canada has become an important player in the
development of a universally rules-based international trade order. Its
success in connecting national economies into a global economy have
proven to be significant to Canada's ability to take advantage of the
continuing process of global integration.