Canadian industries operated at 80.6% of their production capacity in the second quarter, down slightly from 80.8% in the previous quarter. The manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors made comparable contributions to the decrease. In particular, declines in capacity use in oil and gas extraction and primary metals more than offset advances in transportation equipment manufacturing and chemical product manufacturing. The oil and gas extraction sector contributed the most to the overall decline in capacity use in the second quarter. Lower crude petroleum extraction pulled the oil and gas extraction industry's ... (full story)