Good news for Canadian manufacturers – according to StatsCan, manufacturing sales in August rose 1.4% to $47.6 billion. This is the highest level that manufacturing sales have been at since October 2008.
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%).