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Cookies Notice

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In order to serve you better, we use the web analytics services of Google Analytics to help analyse the use of our websites. These tools use cookies to collect and generate information about your visits to our sites (including your partially obscured IP address) that is transmitted to their servers in an anonymous form for processing. We study patterns of website activity so we can improve the experience of visitors to our sites.

The use of these tools does not allow the Province to identify individuals.

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