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BC Business quoted James Brander, a UBC professor at the Sauder School of Business, for an article on the top B.C. companies and their success in 2016.

Brander spoke about the shift from jobs in the goods sector to the service sector.

“There’s only so many trees out there. So if the population doubles, we can’t double the size of the forest sector,” he said. “When the population of B.C. was a quarter of what it is now, a big part of the population had high-paying jobs in the resource sector. The world has changed, and it’s changed in a way that means we have to rely on other things than the resource sector.”