Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) is the country’s leading trade and industry association serving as the voice of 10,000 leading companies.

As Canada’s leading business network, CME also chairs the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition which unites 53 industry associations, more than 100,000 companies and 2 million employees from coast to coast.

Provincially, CME-BC chairs the Alliance for Manufacturing in BC which is a partnership of more than a dozen manufacturing associations.

Manufacturing matters! In British Columbia manufacturing is the fourth largest contributor to provincial GDP and the third largest employer. Manufacturing contributes 30% of the business tax revenue paid to government, 42% of private sector research and development and almost 65% of British Columbia’s exports.