Hi, Frits, I think Brad was being tongue-in-cheek. In fact, Canada has a very strong manufacturing base, especially here in Southern Ontario (which includes Toronto, where I live). The automotive industry is probably our largest, with parts factories and assembly plants by Toyota, Honda, Suzuki, GM, Ford, Chrysler. Throw in a few plants in Eastern Quebec (GM, Hyundai), and you have a thriving industry - albeit, all foreign owned. But many of the parts plants are Canadian owned, along with the steel mills, etc.
And, as you mentioned, the high-tech biz is pretty big here (too bad about that whole Nortel thing though... <g>). I'm not up on all that stuff, but along with Celestica, we've got RIM, Corel, Hummingbird, Mitel, and of course, branch plants of all the US majors. Like I said, I know Brad was just joking, but it does rather feed into the stereotype that Canada has skiing in the summer, that we all live in Igloos and hunt seal meat, and that our largest export is hockey players. Not that these humourous things bother me, but knowing that this list is an international one, I wouldn't want anyone getting the wrong impression... cheers, frank Frits W�thrich wrote: > Isn't Toronto located in Canada? Celestica is there, a company specialised in > electronic manufacturing for all kind of companies around the globe. They > design it, Celestica buils it. > > On Saturday 19 October 2002 12:37, Herb Chong wrote: > > Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >Uhhh...honestly, Canada has no production facilities....or damn close :) > > > > We > > get by selling wheat to Russian, wood and electricity to the US, other than > > that, it's all igloos :) > > < > > > > cars to the US. > > > > Herb.... > > -- > Frits W�thrich -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
