Question 1

A) Using unique wording, explain one negative externality and one positive externality that is currently happening in Canada.

B) What is your country's government doing to fix the issues of the negative externality?

Question 2

1. Choose one of the approaches listed below on protecting elephants from poachers in African countries.

A. The government sets up enormous national parks that have sufficient habitat for elephants to thrive and forbids all local people to enter the parks or to injure either the elephants or their habitat in any way.

B. The government sets up national parks and designates ten villages around the park's edges as official tourist centers that become places where tourists can stay and bases for guided tours inside the national park.

2. Depending on the approachyou have chosen (A or B), explain how the incentives will affect the local villagers, who are often very poor. 3. Which approach (A or B) seems more likely to help the elephant population? 4. Discuss the practice of poaching elephants and the need for environmental protection? 5. Explain how the practice of poaching elephants is a negative externality?

Question 3

Find an online news article dated within the last 12 months that discusses a government involvement in innovation. Using this information in the article, provide the following information in a minimum of five hundred words or greater.

• Provide a brief background of the news article
• How will this innovation help the country's citizens and the global economy?
• What are the negative elements involved with the innovation?
• Explain why you agree or disagree with the country's involvement with the innovation.

***For each question please reference any sources used in A P A format***