Natural Resources Affecting Canada's Economy

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CANADA By Clark MacLean and Ryan Murphy The business world today is becoming more and more dependant on the goods and services of other countries. With the high amount of buying power the developed countries hold it is easy to get products at the lowest price. Canada’s low pricing has created a large amount of demand. The large amount of demand has stimulated the Canadian economy by allowing to people to purchase more goods with the same amount of money. This in turn has caused companies to increases their supply in order to keep up with the demand of the economy. By increasing supply Canadian companies have been forced to create more jobs, which has decreased the unemployment rate and further stimulated the economy. Canada currently…show more content…
This can be proven by the way natural resources have impacted secondary and service industries. Logging has had a strong impact on the pulp and paper sector. The pulp and paper sector is one of the largest manufacturing industries in the country. A large country in area, Canada sees its natural resources spread all over the country. The large area finds a wide variety of resources found in different places. Western provinces tend to have a strong amount of forestry, oil and gas. Central and Eastern provinces have had success with fishing and minerals. The most eastern provinces, which are known as Atlantic Provinces are considerably high in the fishing industry. In recent years Canada’s natural resource exporting made up 58% of total exports done. Exports have also had a beneficial impacts on Canada’s…show more content…
Ambitious targets of an annual 1% per capita immigration rate were hindered by financial limits. The Liberals made a commitment to raising actual immigration levels higher in 2005. Many of the political parties are now nervous about criticizing the high level of immigration. Canada still gets more immigrants per capita than any other major country in the world. The per capita immigration rate in Canada has been pretty constant since the 1950s, and recent years have seen a gradual increase in the skill level and education of immigrants to Canada. Over the last 25 years the economic position of newcomers to Canada relative to the native population has gradually declined. In 2007 a statistics study on Canada shows that the income profile of recent immigrants has fallen by a substantial amount from 2000 to 2004. Recent immigrants themselves are far more likely than native born Canadians to initially have low incomes, with income and employment rates increasing towards the national average with more time spent in Canada. This is slowing down the amount of Immigration. For the economy it’s helped in many different ways buy bringing in more jobs it’s also helped in foreign trade. The presence within Canada of people representative of many different cultures and nations has also been an important boost to Canada's international

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