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CIC | November 9, 2011

Manufacturing once accounted for 29 percent of Canadian GDP; now only 13 percent. Are we witnessing the end of Canadian manufacturing?

An introduction to Open Canada’s week-long series on the impact of globalization on Canada’s ability to make things, featuring debates between experts on how Canada should adapt – or whether it should adapt at all.

For more depth on this topic, check out:

	1. Former Ontario PC candidate and author of Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molsons, Andrea Mandel-Campbell defends manufacturing as the basis for prosperity.
	2. Photographer Edward Burtynsky discusses his images of manufacturing and comments on the role of art in documenting industrial change.
	3. Jim Milway, Executive Director of the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, argues that higher education will lead to the replacement of lost manufacturing jobs.
	4. Economist Stephen Blank, Director of the Macdonald Laurier Institute’s Portal for North America, explains how manufacturing jobs are changing – and why, as a result, there will be less of them.
	5. North America expert Christopher Sands is optimistic about Canada’s manufacturing prospects. Here’s why.

Photo Courtesy the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Exhibit, “Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1958 to Today“

TAGS

Andrea Mandel-Campbell, Automobile sector, Burtynsky, China, globalization, India, innovation, Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, Jim Milway, Manufactured Landscapes, manufacturing, Martin Prosperity Institute, no-image, Productivity

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