Canadian industries operated at 83.3% of their production capacity in the second quarter, up from 81.1% in the previous quarter. This was the highest capacity utilization rate since the second quarter of 2018. The mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector was the main source of this increase. Higher capacity utilization in mining and quarrying, oil and gas extraction, manufacturing, and forestry and logging more than offset decreases in electric power generation, transmission and distribution. Following declines in the two previous quarters, the capacity utilization rate in the mining and quarrying and oil ... (full story)