1. UNIT 4: ECONOMIC CONNECTIONS

2. 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

3. Primary  Jobs that take raw materials from the natural environment  The extraction of natural resources  Farming, Fishing, Forestry, Mining, Energy

5. 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

7. Tertiary - Service  Jobs that focus on providing services  Teachers, servers, doctors, lawyers, supermarket workers etc… Majority of CANADIAN jobs are in this industry

9. Primary, Secondary or Tertiary?  Raw Materials  Manufacturing  Mining  Civil Service  Research and Development  Ski Resort  Novelist  Construction  Farming

10. Quaternary Industry  Processing of ideas rather than products  Examples include:  Computer programming (Steve Jobs)  Accountants,  University professors

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Problems in the Manufacturing Industry c) Canadian Market Fragmented  Rather than major corporations competing internationally, CAN has smaller companies competing nationally