Fiscal Conservatives

The Canadian economy is a complex mixture of service, manufacturing, and primary sector pursuits that is dominated by the service industry; however, unlike many developed nations, an important part of Canada’s economy is the exploitation of raw materials, including oil, natural gas, gold, nickel, diamonds, lead, trees, and uranium. Though the general course of a developing nation has been, historically, an economic shift from the primary sector to manufacturing and, eventually, to the service industry, Canada has remained a world leader in the production of many of the aforementioned economic goods. Canada produces more energy than it consumes, in contrast with most of the developed world, and also exports lots of oil and natural gas. The wealth of relatively cheap energy produced from oil, natural gas, hydroelectric sources and nuclear power has helped the Canadian manufacturing industries tremendously.