Figure5-1The Growing Importance of International Trade Panel (a) illustrates the fact that over the past 50 years, Canada has exported a growing share of its GDP to other countries and imported a growing share of what it consumes. Panel (b) demonstrates that international trade is more important to some countries than it is to Canada.
Sources: Statistics Canada [panel (a)] and World Bank [panel (b)].
Sources: Statistics Canada [panel (a)] and World Bank [panel (b)].