This illustrates the problem. If Canadians were able to read and comprehend Stats Canada GDP reports, they would see that Canada is overwhelmingly a service sector economy and not, in fact, a resource-based economy. 

The Canadian economy had the following relative weighting by industry, as percentage value of GDP:
12.34% Real estate and rental and leasing
10.86% Manufacturing
07.96% All mining, quarrying and oil or gas extraction

The service sector employs about three quarters of Canadians and contributes 70% of GDP. The largest employer is the retail sector, employing almost 12% of Canadians.

BC's economy is reliant on service-based industries. More than 80% of us work in services and over 76% of our GDP comes from those sectors. Oil, gas and support services make up just 3% of BC's GDP, forestry & logging about 1.5%, compared to 15% for manufacturing and construction and over 23% for financial and real estate services. Mining, oil & gas combine to make up about 1% of BC jobs.