To Reject Manufacturing Would be a Huge Mistake

Published February 6, 2008

Manufacturing provides many Canadians with good jobs and the opportunity to develop high skills. Yet today, manufacturing is at risk. Several hundred thousand jobs have disappeared in recent years and things could get much worse. There are two reasons for this.

One is the increasing possibility of a difficult U.S. recession combined with a high Canadian dollar, which poses a serious threat to many small...