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Three types of industry in the citizenship study guide

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Discover Canada distinguishes service industries, manufacturing and natural-resource industries. Services provide activities such as banking, education and tourism; manufacturing makes products; resource industries develop materials and energy from the natural environment.

Scope & context

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More context

Service examples include transportation, communications, retail and government. Manufactured goods include automobiles, aerospace equipment, machinery, processed foods and clothing. Resource examples include forestry, fishing, agriculture, mining and energy.

These are broad learning categories; modern industries often overlap. Trade links the categories through supply chains and exports. Avoid treating a percentage printed in an older study guide as a current labour-market statistic without consulting a newer statistical source.

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Discover Canada — Canada’s Economy ↗

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Canada’s Economy; sections and tables identified in the research record