Editing Economy of Canada (section)

===Service sector===
The service sector in Canada is vast and multifaceted, employing about three quarters of Canadians and accounting for 70% of GDP.<ref name="auto">{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Canada|access-date=October 14, 2018}}</ref> The largest employer is the [[retail]] sector, employing almost 12% of Canadians.<ref>Wallace, Iain, ''A Geography of the Canadian Economy.'' Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2002.</ref> The retail industry is concentrated mainly in a small number of chain stores clustered together in [[shopping mall]]s. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of [[big-box store]]s, such as [[Walmart]] (of the United States), [[Real Canadian Superstore]], and [[Best Buy]] (of the United States). This has led to fewer workers in this sector and the migration of retail jobs to the suburbs.
[[File:Vancouver downtown.jpg|thumb|The [[Financial District, Vancouver|Financial District]] in [[Downtown Vancouver]]. Canadian business services are largely concentrated in large urban areas of Canada.]]
The second-largest portion of the service sector is the business service, and it employs only a slightly smaller percentage of the population.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410002301|title=Labour force characteristics by industry, annual|first=Statistics Canada|last=Government of Canada|date=January 25, 2021|website=www150.statcan.gc.ca}}</ref> This includes the [[financial services]], [[real estate]], and communications industries. This portion of the economy has been rapidly growing in recent years. It is largely concentrated in the major urban centres, especially [[Toronto]], [[Montreal]] and [[Vancouver]] (see [[Banking in Canada]]).

The education and health sectors are two of Canada's largest, but both are primarily under the influence of the government. The health care industry has been quickly growing and is the third-largest in Canada.

Canada has an important [[high tech]] industry,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Canada Business Facts|url=https://bizpages.org/countries--CA--Canada}}</ref> and a burgeoning film, television, and entertainment industry creating content for local and international consumption (see [[Media in Canada]]).<ref>{{cite book |last=Gasher |first=Mike |date=2002 |title=Hollywood North the feature film industry in British Columbia |location=Vancouver |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0774809689 }}</ref> [[Tourism in Canada|Tourism]] is of ever increasing importance, with the vast majority of international visitors coming from the United States. Casino gaming is currently the fastest-growing component of the Canadian tourism industry, contributing $5 billion in profits for Canadian governments and employing 41,000 Canadians as of 2001.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 =MacLaurin | first1 =Tanya | last2 =MacLaurin | first2 =Donald | title =Casino gaming and tourism in Canada | journal =International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management | volume =15 | issue =6 | pages =328–332 | publisher =MCB UP Ltd | date =2003 | doi =10.1108/09596110310488177 }}<!--| access-date =June 4, 2014 --></ref>