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UNIT 4: ECONOMIC CONNECTIONS
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Types of Industries The JOBS that people do can be divided into four categories: 1. Primary Industries 2. Secondary Industries 3. Tertiary (Service) Industries 4. Quaternary Industries
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Primary Jobs that take raw materials from the natural environment The extraction of natural resources Farming, Fishing, Forestry, Mining, Energy
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Secondary Jobs that deal with the manufacturing of raw materials into a finished product Forestry furniture, pulp, paper Fishing cannery (tuna) Farming food manufacturer Minerals jewelry, energy sources
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Tertiary - Service Jobs that focus on providing services Teachers, servers, doctors, lawyers, supermarket workers etc… Majority of CANADIAN jobs are in this industry
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Primary, Secondary or Tertiary? Raw Materials Manufacturing Mining Civil Service Research and Development Ski Resort Novelist Construction Farming
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Quaternary Industry Processing of ideas rather than products Examples include: Computer programming (Steve Jobs) Accountants, University professors
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Basic and Non Basic Industries Basic Industries Industry that sells it’s products outside of the community, bringing new money into the community Provide jobs for residents Provides the economic base for a community Car manufacturing, Canada’s Wonderland, ski resorts in Collingwood
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Non Basic Industries Industry that sells its products within the community, it does not bring money into the community Most jobs are non-basic Small local grocery store
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Basic or Non Basic? 1. Coal miner in Northern BC 2. Hairdresser at a shopping mall 3. Art Teacher 4. Actor on Stratford 5. Teller at local bank 6. Vice-president of Scotiabank 7. Professor at Queen’s University 8. Receptionist at a dentist’s office 9. Air Canada pilot 10. School-bus driver
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Problems in the Manufacturing Industry Manufacturing is an underdeveloped industry in CAN Why? a) Resource Trading Nation CAN trades most of its natural resources, it doesn’t manufacture products
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Problems in the Manufacturing Industry b) 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
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Problems in the Manufacturing Industry c) Canadian Market Fragmented Rather than major corporations competing internationally, CAN has smaller companies competing nationally
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