High impact: the economic importance of BC’s natural resources

A 10 percent boost in BC’s natural-resource economy would mean an extra $2.137 billion in the province’s’s GDP, an extra $4.5 billion across Canada, and more than 39,000 new jobs for British Columbians. And 55 percent of those jobs would be in the Lower Mainland. All this and much more from Philip Cross, former chief economic analyst for Statistics Canada. He says that a 10 percent boost in our natural resource output is indeed realistic.