New Brunswick exports grew throughout pandemic January 13, 2021 by Clara Pasieka
New Brunswick now has more exporters than it did prior to the pandemic, according to a new report from Statistics Canada.
Led by New Brunswick, up 8.8 per cent compared with February, all Atlantic provinces but Nova Scotia had more exporters than before the pandemic, StatCan states in the report.
Saint John also took the title of the only census metropolitan area in the country that increased its exports in the period from Oct. 2019 to Oct. 2020.
Claire Ephestion, development officer of Export and International Trade for Women in Business New Brunswick, called the statistics “encouraging”.