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The empowerment zone employment credit provides businesses with an incentive to hire individuals who both live and work in an empowerment zone. (An exception applies to the Washington, DC empowerment zone. Individuals who work in the Washington, DC empowerment zone may live anywhere in the District of Columbia.) You can claim the credit if you ...
The renewal community employment credit provides businesses with an incentive to hire individuals who both live and work in a renewal community. Employers can claim the credit if they pay or incur “qualified zone wages” to a “qualified zone employee”. The credit is for wages paid or incurred after 2001. The credit is 15% of the ...
Employment equity, as defined in federal Canadian law by the Employment Equity Act (French: Loi sur l’équité en matière d’emploi), requires federal jurisdiction employers to engage in proactive employment practices to increase the representation of four designated groups: women, people with disabilities, visible minorities, and Indigenous peoples. [1]
US$122.9 billion (July 2024) [31][32] All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars. The economy of Canada is a highly developed mixed economy, [33][34][35] with the world's tenth-largest economy as of 2023, and a nominal GDP of approximately US$ 2.117 trillion. [6] Canada is one of the world's largest trading nations, with a highly ...
Website. esdc-edsc.gc.ca. Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC; French: Emploi et Développement social Canada; EDSC) [NB 1] is a department of the Government of Canada responsible for social programs and the labour market at the federal level. [1] The department delivers a number of federal government programs and services including ...
5,599,077 km 2 (2,161,816 sq mi) Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic ...
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
Census geographic units of Canada. The census geographic units of Canada are the census subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada [1] to conduct the country's quinquennial census. These areas exist solely for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government of ...