Dr. Dale Orr at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On November 28th, 2007. See this statement in context.

November 28th, 2007 / 4:05 p.m.

Managing Director, Canadian Macroeconomic Services, Global Insight Inc.

I'll get to that one in a minute.

If they don't want to move that's fine, but should people elsewhere continue to subsidize their EI?

There's no magic size for the manufacturing sector in Canada that's optimal. It depends on a lot of other things. I should point out that the manufacturing sector in Canada and in the U.S has been shrinking for quite a few years. Right now about 12% of our people are employed in manufacturing, and in the U.S. it's 10%.

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