GGR246H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Northern Canada, Potash, Black Market
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Lecture 3 the economic base of canada. Impact here in canada regional scale. (not canada in the position of the world) assignment. Atlantic canada fisheries (collapse in this industry), now oil; hydro in newfoundland. Quebec mining; hydro; forestry; manufacturing; big engineering firms (bombardier, aerospace) Ontario manufacturing (auto southern ontario) (magna, food), finance, mining, forestry (northern); farming (agriculture) in southern ontario (resource economy) Prairies farming/ranching (cows), potash (fertilizer) and mining. Bc- fishing; farming in okanagan valley; mining; natural gas; gateway shipping (trade with asia, Northern canada: mining (resource significant dependency on resources) Stapes theory: canada"s place as in the world periphery involvement, resource economy. Economy at its earliest phase, natural resource extraction lowest manufacturing production does not happen early 20th century selling goods to britain and they put value added and sell. (core and periphery relationship) Price discrepancy canada being undervalued, hinterland as a periphery relationship. Manufacturing production may as well occur in local settings (quebec, ontario)
