Happy New Year Canada !!! The country’s name is derived from “Kanata”, a Huron-Iroquois word meaning village or settlement. Everybody knows about Canada's publicly-funded healthcare, clean and beautiful landscape, and the overall amazing quality of life that comes with living in Canada but what about all the big reasons that make Canada great? There's 37,576,991 of them. That's the current population of Canada as of Tuesday, December 31, 2019, based on Worldometers elaboration of the latest United Nations data. Happy New Year Canada! Take care, eh ..lol..!!!