August Survey of Manufacturing

Good news for Canadian manufacturers – according to StatsCan, manufacturing sales in August rose 1.4% to $47.6 billion. This is the highest level that manufacturing sales have been at since October 2008.

A breakdown of some of the provinces is as follows:

  • Manitoba fell 2.4%
  • Newfoundland and Labrador rose 53.6% to $397 million
  • Nova Scotia fell 5.6%
  • Ontario rose to 0.4% to $21.5 billion
  • Quebec rose 3.5% to $11.8 billion

The largest industry increases include the transportation industry (7.0%), the food industry (3.9%) and the petroleum and coal products industry (2.7%).

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