Canadian Geography, Canadian Economy

What type of employment would you like to have 20 years from now? Why do you want to do this type of work? Make a list of tasks that you think will fill your typical day. Make a list of 5-10 different jobs that you or members of your family currently work at, or have worked at. For each job you listed above, come up with a list of day-to-day tasks that you think they do.

Primary Industries Secondary Industries Tertiary Industries Quaternary Industries

Jobs that involve the extraction of raw materials from the natural environment Raw materials = natural resources Trees, fish, agriculture, minerals, energy Less than 10% of Canadian jobs

Jobs that involve the manufacturing of raw materials into finished products Trees  furniture, pulp, paper Fish  canned tuna, imitation crab meat Agriculture  frozen food, clothing Minerals  jewelry, energy sources Less than 30% of Canadian jobs

Jobs that involve the selling of services and skills Service industries Hospitality services: hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, hair and nail salons, entertainment Civil service Teachers, government workers, mayors, Members of Provincial and federal Parliament Legal and medical services Police, lawyers, doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters Also: finance, transportation, sales

Jobs that involve intellectual services Research and development (R&D) Information and communication technology (ICT) Consultancy Tertiary and quaternary industries often lumped together Most of Canada’s jobs, now and in future, belong to these two industries

Ski instructor Novelist Crane operator Farmer Detective Video game tester Heart surgeon Garbageperson Veterinarian Interior decorator Artist Google application developer

Look back at the list of jobs that your family has or has had. Categorize each job according to industry (primary – quaternary).

Manufacturing is an underdeveloped Canadian industry that is also shrinking: WHY? Resource-trading nation Global markets want Canada’s natural resources, not its manufactured goods Secondary manufacturing suffering because the level of foreign investment is decreasing Companies finding that it is more efficient to carry out business from their home offices or less-developed nations Fragmented Canadian market Canada’s population is too small to support the growth of large corporations that can then compete internationally

Basic Industry Industry that sells its products outside of the community, bringing new money into the community Car manufacturing, Canada’s Wonderland Non-basic Industry Industry that sells its products within the community: it recycles the money already in the community Sobeys, auto repair shops

Coal miner in northern BC Hairdresser at a shopping mall Art teacher Actor at Stratford Shakespeare Festival Teller at local bank Air Canada pilot Vice president of Scotiabank Professor at University of Toronto’s aeronautics engineering program

Look back at the list of jobs that your family has or has had. Categorize each job according to industry (basic or non-basic).

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