Editing Economy of Canada (section)

===Manufacturing===
[[File:Ford Oakville Assembly.JPG|thumb|[[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]'s [[Oakville Assembly]] in the [[Greater Toronto Area]]. Central Canada is home to several auto factories of the major American and Japanese automakers.]]
The [[Three-sector model|general pattern of development]] for wealthy nations was a transition from a raw material production-based economy to a manufacturing-based economy and then to a service-based economy. At its World War II peak in 1944, Canada's manufacturing sector accounted for 29% of GDP,<ref name="mfggdp">{{cite web|url=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11f0027m/2009057/ct029-eng.htm|title=Manufacturing's share of gross domestic product, 1900 to 2005 |publisher=Statistics Canada}}</ref> declining to 10.37% in 2017.<ref name=" industry GDP" /> Canada has not suffered as greatly as most other rich, industrialized nations from the pains of the relative decline in the importance of manufacturing since the 1960s.<ref name="mfggdp" /> A 2009 study by [[Statistics Canada]] also found that, while manufacturing declined as a relative percentage of GDP from 24.3% in the 1960s to 15.6% in 2005, manufacturing volumes between 1961 and 2005 kept pace with the overall growth in the volume index of GDP.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11f0027m/2009057/aftertoc-aprestdm2-eng.htm|title=The Canadian Manufacturing Sector: Adapting to Challenges |publisher=Statistics Canada}}</ref> Manufacturing in Canada declined significantly during the [[Great Recession]]. As of 2017, manufacturing accounts for 10% of Canada's GDP,<ref name=" industry GDP"/> a relative decline of more than 5% of GDP since 2005.

Central Canada is home to [[branch plant]]s to all the major American and Japanese automobile makers and many parts factories owned by Canadian firms such as [[Magna International]] and [[Linamar|Linamar Corporation]].

====Steel====
[[Image:HamiltonNorthEndIndustrialA.JPG|right|thumb|[[Dofasco|ArcelorMittal Dofasco]], view from Burlington Street]]
Canada was the world's nineteenth-largest steel exporter in 2018. In year-to-date 2019 (through March), further referred to as YTD 2019, Canada exported 1.39 million metric tons of steel, a 22 percent decrease from 1.79 million metric tons in YTD 2018. Based on available data, Canada's exports represented about 1.5 percent of all steel exported globally in 2017. By volume, Canada's 2018 steel exports represented just over one-tenth the volume of the world's largest exporter, China. In value terms, steel represented 1.4 percent of the total goods Canada exported in 2018. The growth in exports in the decade since 2009 has been 29%. The largest producers in 2018 were [[ArcelorMittal]], [[Essar Steel Algoma]], and the first of those alone accounted for roughly half of Canadian steel production through its two subsidiaries. The top two markets for Canada's exports were its [[NAFTA]] partners, and by themselves accounted for 92 percent of exports by volume. Canada sent 83 percent of its steel exports to the United States in YTD 2019. The gap between domestic demand and domestic production increased to −2.4 million metric tons, up from −0.2 million metric tons in YTD 2018. In YTD 2019, exports as a share of production decreased to 41.6 percent from 53 percent in YTD 2018.<ref name="usdoc">{{citation-attribution|{{cite news |title=Global Steel Trade Monitor – Steel Exports Report: Canada |url=https://www.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/exports-Canada.pdf |agency=International Trade Administration |publisher=US Department of Commerce |date=August 2019 |access-date=October 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428221657/https://www.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/exports-Canada.pdf |archive-date=April 28, 2018 |url-status=dead}} }}</ref>

In 2017, [[heavy industry]] accounted for 10.2% of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.<ref name=":1" />