Sell Canada ?

[grassfarmer]

I don't make up the figures Klause but they do not support your argument whichever ones you look at. Oil and gas are relatively minor sectors of the CDN economy.

Eighteenth in the list of industrial sector employers - "mining quarrying and oil and gas extraction" was behind "farming, forestry, hunting and fishing"

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-012-x/2011002/c-g/c-g02-eng.cfm

Only 61,000 employed in oil and gas extraction in 2013 - where there was 65,000 involved in mining.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/labr71c-eng.htm

[ajl]

Oil and Gas has a huge impact on the Canadian economy. The largest employer in Canada is the government and most of those people should stay home from work because the rest of us are worse off from their effort. That being said what else do people of Canada do? Oil and gas, mining, farming, fishing and logging. Transportation is a huge sector but much of their activity is derived from the aforementioned industries. Manufacturing is a mere shadow of its former self and most of that is better done in the US and Asia.

[cottonpicken]

You guys are both right,it's not big in GDP numbers but what exports do is bring external capital into our economy which is a huge deal.once that capital hits the banking system,wages,deposits,etc is gets leverage up and landed out.

[Klause]

Exactly cp.


Grassfarmer I'm not disputing your #s.

Do you agree forestry farming and fishing are 2% of our economy in real terms?




Without ag and oil there would be nothing in the west and little in the East...


Unless you are the Cayman Islands or Switzerland real growth doesn't come from services... service industries shuffle money that exists... mining ag forestry and oil create new wealth.