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[panamaniac]

Manufacturing is still a very large part of our local economy (roughly ~20% of employment), and my understanding is that it is not on a sharp downward trajectory. What's left is of course more niche and more advanced kinds of manufacturing.

Yes, around 20% of employment is manufacturing companies based on StatsCan data (the actual number of factory jobs will be less than that as manufacturers also have white-collar employees).  More specialized than before, and still factory employment is on a gradual downward slope.

And compared to the 80s, which KWchick referred to, we have lost companies like Budd, Uniroyal, Kaufman, Arrow, Schneider's, BFGoodrich etc. 

And about to lose Lear - pretty much the last of the "old school" industries in town, apart from Krug Furniture and a few smaller firms.