Canada
In Quebec, Grade 11 (sec. 5) is the final year of secondary education, followed by CEGEP. In all other provinces a student continues to Grade 12. In Newfoundland and Labrador, grade 11 was the final year of high school until the introduction of grade 12 by the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Peckford under education minister Lynn Verge.
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Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)
“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)