With the world preoccupied with trading relationships there are few places where this is more important than Saskatchewan.
We are a trading province plain and simple. We have a large land mass and a relatively small but highly productive population. In short, we don’t have much of a domestic market but we produce a lot of stuff so we have to find a buyer for that output somewhere outside the boundaries of our province.
It amounts to roughly 70-percent of our economic activity making us one of, if not THE, most trade dependent jurisdiction in Canada. It also makes us the most successful global traders in the country and, perhaps, the world.
Some new numbers on this topic provide a different but potent perspective on our trade reliance. In percentage terms, we are most the trade dependent and on a per capita basis we are second in Canada with exports of $45 billion last year translating into $36,000 per person. Only Alberta is higher and only just slightly higher.
