Originally Posted by iaink

Manufacturing is hit by the strong dollar, so of course ontario suffers more, as it has far more of it to suffer!

Ontarios manufacturing was up last month...let me quote stats canada...
In Ontario, the transportation industry, which accounts for nearly a third of Ontario's manufacturing output, increased 2.2% to just under $8.0 billion. This was the main reason behind Ontario's 1.2% jump in shipments to $25.2 billion


25bn in a month, compared to $5bn in AB. I make that $300bn a year..as opposed to 8.8% of 168bn overall ($16.5bn) in the 2004 figures you quoted for Alberta.


I wonder too how much of the manufacturing and business service output in AB (which has grown as a % as the energy segment contracted) is also tied to the energy sector in one way or another?

Originally Posted by dbd33

OK, Mr. Huckster, Alberta's economy has steadily expanded since the dawn of time and that expansion will continue until the end of time. It's safe, it's very very safe.

Originally Posted by oceanMDX

Your numbers don't seem to add up:

http://www.2ontario.com/facts/fact01_fact_sheet.asp

If Ontario's economy is $538 billion, and manufacturing is 20.9 % of it, that means Ontario's manufacturing output is worth $112 billion/year - not $300 billion.

Originally Posted by iaink

Its not my numbers, its stats canadas, and we already covered that elsewhere.

Originally Posted by oceanMDX

Mr. Huckster? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black with all your little schemes and mistress... if you wife couldn't trust you ... why should we? LMAO.

Originally Posted by dbd33

I'm not selling anything here. I'm not promoting anything. You're selling Alberta like it's a swamp in Florida, despite living in Mexico, while I'm just advising caution. There's no need for readers to trust me because I'm not putting them at risk.

Originally Posted by oceanMDX

I'm not selling anything here.... just countering your misinformation about Alberta. If you aren't talking about how its some haven for rednecks ..... then it's about how its economy could go bust at any time. On a proportional basis, Ontario has just as many rednecks as Alberta.

I lived in Alberta for 15 years, made some money there and retired at 40 thanks to its economy and a lot of hard work. I was born in Ontario and graduated from university there before I left at 25.... still visit family there every year or so.... I know a good deal about both places.

.... and btw, the Okanagan valley is not in Mexico.

Originally Posted by oceanMDX

If you aren't talking about how its some haven for rednecks ..... then it's about how its economy could go bust at any time.

Originally Posted by Daedra

Does anybody else feel like they just read through a bunch of economists debating?

Sorry... didn't mean to interupt or anything, I must say, if you lot are British Expats (I'm an imposter myself) then you certainly got the patriotic/provincial bug in you... *stands up & starts singing* Ohhhhh Canada...

Originally Posted by Daedra

*stands up & starts singing* Ohhhhh Canada...

Originally Posted by dbd33

I know you've mentioned having a trailer in the Okanagan as well as an apartment in Mexico. I guess that's just reward for all those years in Alberta.

Originally Posted by oceanMDX

I never said any such thing.... just more of the usual distortion coming from you. I have a motor home in BC, and a house in Mexico, here it is:

Originally Posted by iaink

I dont think he said at any time, just at some time. And history has shown that thats a fair bet.