Though Statistics Canada's figures show how robust the industry had been through 2014, the precipitous drop in oil prices near the end of last has changed the picture drastically for 2015: The Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors recently sharply revised down its job projections, but in the longer term this is still a key part of Canada's economy and the pendulum will swing back. (canadianbusiness.com)
Part of the reason for these smaller, more incremental changes is that Canada's housing market is one of the few robust industries left in the current economic environment. (moneysense.ca)
It made possible the emergence and success of many robust industries we now take for granted — for mainframes, PCs, workstations / servers, and so on — by ensuring that competitors could challenge established players and advance the state of the art. (eff.org)