Why do people keep repeating the fallacy that Canada is a resource-based economy? We are not. Canada’s natural resource sectors accounted for only 17% of GDP in 2015 and only 1.17 million jobs in Canada. Other sectors, notably service industries, accounted for 83% of GDP and over 16 million jobs.

Our standard of living and social services funding comes largely from total government revenues of $295.5 Billion - of which resource-based industries contributed a mere $27 Billion. 

It's hard to take the 'resource based economy' crowd seriously when they can't read and understand a StatsCan GDP table or government financial report.