Highlights are as follows:

• Manufacturing sales increased in nine provinces – most notably in Alberta, where there was a 5.9% rise to $6.3 billion.
• Since Albera’s sales rose most drastically as far as provinces go, it’s not surprising to learn that one the industries with the highest sales gain was the petroleum and coal products industry (up 13.7% to $7.6 billion).
• The transportation equipment industry saw an increase of 7.1% to $8.0 billion – mainly due to aerospace product and parts, and the motor vehicle industries.
• The food industry saw a decline of 3.0%.

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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%).

According to this study, manufacturing sales increased 8.9% from 2009, to a total of $529.8 billion. While this is the largest single annual increase since 2000, it is still below the sales figures from 2008.

Nineteen industries (95.4% of total manufacturing) saw dollar sales increase through 2010 – the largest increases were in the vehicle, petroleum and coal products and primary metal manufacturing industries.

The full study can be read here

Canada’s numbers themselves are extremely positive and what we see happening with the US leaves room for great potential for Canada in the future. Most notably, our trade surplus with the US has dropped to $1.1 billion, which fell $1.7 billion from what it was in September.

We are seeing a rise in the exporting of commodities and resources – in general, there was a 13.7% increase of exports of industrial goods and materials. Two very important areas where we saw a very large rise in exports was gold (45% higher) and forestry. It is important to realize that the same amount of the forestry exports went to the Asian market as it did to the US – this could potentially be greatly beneficial to reduce our dependence on the US market.

Lastly, as far as importing goes, we are seeing most of our imports coming from machinery and equipment – making it look like Canadian businesses are investing in their companies right now.

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The industry highlights are as follows:

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing: rose 13.8% to $4 billion
• Petroleum and Coal Products: rose 2.4% to $5.4 billion
• Non-metallic Mineral Products: rose 6.3%
• Fabricated Metal Products: rose 2.3%
• Chemicals: rose 1.5%
• Paper: rose 2.3%
• Primary Metals Industry: fell 2.2%

The provincial highlights are as follows:

• Alberta: rose 2.0%
• British Columbia: fell 0.1%
• Manitoba: fell 4.4%
• New Brunswick: fell 4.4%
• Newfoundland and Labrador: fell 0.7%
• Nova Scotia: rose 2.1%
• Ontario: rose 2.9%
• Prince Edward Island: fell 5.9%
• Quebec: rose 2.3%
• Saskatchewan: rose 6.1%