Manufacturing Sector Industry Focus - Canada Edition

The manufacturing sector in Canada consists of about 80,000 establishments with annual revenue of around $500 billion. Overall manufacturing sales have been relatively flat in recent years, growing less than 1 percent from 2005 to 2008 before declining sharply in 2009 because of the global economic recession. Due to the relatively small size of its population and economy, Canada has many small manufacturing businesses: over 90 percent employ fewer than 100.