GMS 691 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lower Canada, Nuclear Reaction, Deep Sea
15 Apr 2016
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82% (25 million) people live within 160 kms of us. Temp of -70c in winter arctic to +37c in summer southern ontario. British columbia: 4. 3 million people, shipping, lumber, manufacturing, tourism, mountains, large influx of asian investment in finance, finance (represents 23% of provincial gdp, manufacturing, mostly pulp & paper, represents 9%. Saskatchewan: 1. 1 million people (about 1/3 of the city of toronto, flat prairie, grain, oil, natural gas, potash, produced about 54% of canada"s wheat crop, most of which is exported. Manitoba: 1. 2 million people, oil, gas, forestry, shipping and the winnipeg jets". Ontario: 13 million people, canada"s largest provincial economy, most diversified. Quebec: largest province geographically, 7. 8 million people predominantly, french diversified, key export to us is hydro electric power. Strong energy sector - 1 in 9 jobs impacted by oil sands project alone. Shift to service sector - finance, medical hospitality, leisure. Resources is good short term, bad long term.
