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   ocr: With a population of28.2 million living in the world's second largest country, Canada does not suffer from the environmental pressures ofr more populated states. Iti is justly renowned for vast tracts of wild countryside untroubled by industrial pollution or pollution caused by intensive farming methods. Canadians have tighter pollution controls than the neighboring USA. However, Canada's rate of carbon- dioxide emissions is higher, at 4.1 tons per person per year, than the Soviet Union's (3.4),Japan's (2.1) or France's (1.7).Per capita production ofl - hazardous waste is also higher than the ...