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…showed last 75 words of 1557 total…stries, newsprint, pulp and paper, steel and primary metals, nonmetallic minerals, petroleum refineries and chemicals. As resource development continues in the 1980s, resource-based manufacturing will grow in the western and Atlantic provinces. The western provinces now account for a significant and growing proportion of the metal-fabricating and machinery output. The CMA strongly supported the free trade agreement proposed by the Mulroney government, arguing that it will create significant investment and employment opportunities for Canadian manufacturers.