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Canada is the country occupying the northern portion of North America, and is the world's second largest country in total area.

Canada defines itself as a bilingual and multicultural nation. Canada's two official languages, English and French, are the mother tongues of 56.3% and 28.7% of the population respectively.

English and French have equal status in federal courts, Parliament, and in all federal institutions. The public has the right, where there is sufficient demand, to receive federal government services in either English or French. While multiculturalism is official policy, to become a citizen one must be able to speak either English or French and more than 98% of Canadians speak English or French or both. While the nation remains officially bilingual, the majority of Canadians are fluent only in English.

Canada has a well established Premium Rate Market. Regulation is heavily influenced by the UK Regulator, however.

900 content providers are required to waive all reasonably disputed 900 charges for first-time disputes, and to advise customers who dispute 900 service charges of the call blocking feature to protect them from future fees.

900 content providers are also prohibited from using programs that use repetitive scripts, long holding periods, excessive wording or long downloading features in order to prolong the call and increase charges, regardless of whether their calls are billed by a 900 content provider, a telephone company, or another agent.

The federal government levies a multi-stage sales tax of 7% on goods and services (6% from 1 July 2006), that is called the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and, in some provinces, the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). The GST/HST is similar to a value-added tax.

Provincial sales tax rates at the retail level on goods and some services are as follows:

• British Columbia: 7%
• Ontario: 8%
• Saskatchewan: 7%
• Prince Edward Island: 10%
• Manitoba: 7%
• Quebec: 7.5%