This sector includes federal, provincial, municipal and aboriginal governments.

This sector comprises :

• Repair and maintenance
• Personal and laundry services 
• Religious, grant-making, civic, and professional and similar organizations     
• Private households

This sector comprises :

• Motor vehicle and parts dealers
• Furniture and home furnishings stores     
• Electronics and appliance stores 
• Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers     
• Food and beverage stores 
• Health and personal care stores 
• Gasoline stations 
• Clothing and clothing accessories stores 
• Sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores     
• General merchandise stores     
• Miscellaneous store retailers 
• Non-store retailers     

This sector comprises :

• Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers
• Food, beverage and tobacco merchant wholesalers
• Personal and household goods merchant wholesalers
• Motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts and accessories merchant wholesalers
• Building material and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Machinery, equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Miscellaneous merchant wholesalers    
• Business-to-business electronic markets, and agents and brokers 

This sector comprises:

• Construction of buildings
• Heavy and civil engineering construction     
• Specialty trade contractors 

This sector comprises :

• Farm product merchant wholesalers
• Food manufacturing
• Beverage and tobacco product manufacturing 
• Textile mills 
• Textile product mills 
• Clothing manufacturing     
• Leather and allied product manufacturing 
• Wood product manufacturing 
• Paper manufacturing 
• Printing and related support activities     
• Petroleum and coal product manufacturing 
• Chemical manufacturing     
• Plastics and rubber products manufacturing     
• Non-metallic mineral product manufacturing     
• Primary metal manufacturing 
• Fabricated metal product manufacturing     
• Machinery manufacturing     
• Computer and electronic product manufacturing     
• Electrical equipment, appliance and component manufacturing 
• Transportation equipment manufacturing     
• Furniture and related product manufacturing     
• Miscellaneous manufacturing 

This sector comprises:

• Monetary authorities - central bank
• Credit intermediation and related activities 
• Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investment and related activities     
• Insurance carriers and related activities     
• Funds and other financial vehicles 

This sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in managing companies and enterprises and/or holding the securities or financial assets of companies and enterprises, for the purpose of owning a controlling interest in them and/or influencing their management decisions.

This sector comprises:

• Publishing industries (except internet)
• Motion picture and sound recording industries 
• Broadcasting (except internet)     
• Telecommunications 
• Data processing, hosting, and related services     
• Other information services 

This sector comprises establishments of two different types: those primarily engaged in activities that support the day-to-day operations of other organizations; and those primarily engaged in waste management activities. This sector comprises:

• Administrative and support services
• Waste management and remediation services 

This sector comprises:

• primary and secondary schools;
• community colleges and CEGEPs;
• universities;
• business and computer and management training schools;
• technical schools and trade schools;
• other education and training institutions (arts school, athletic training, language schools);
• teaching support services (pedagogical advice, career guidance, personal development, student exchange programs).

This sector comprises:

• legal services (lawyer, notary);
• accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll (accountant) services;
• architecture, engineering and related services (landscape architecture, technical drawing, building inspection, prospecting, geophysical surveys, surveying, mapping, testing laboratories);
• specialized design services (interior, industrial and graphic design);
• design of computer systems and related services (computer, software, web pages);
• management consulting and scientific and technical consulting services (administrative management, human resources, environment);
• scientific research and development services (research and development in the physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, humanities and social sciences);
• advertising, public relations and related services (advertising, public relations, media buying, billboards, direct mail, distribution of advertising material);
• other professional, scientific and technical services (market research, opinion polls, photographic services, translation, interpretation, veterinary services).

This sector comprises:

• the production, transport and distribution of electricity (production of electro-geothermal energy, production of electro-solar energy, production of electrical energy from tidal energy, wind power generation, production of electrical energy by compressed air);
• natural gas distribution (natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas distribution networks, natural gas brokers, natural gas and synthetic gas distribution);
• water and sewer systems and others (water systems and irrigation systems, wastewater treatment facilities, steam generation and air conditioning).

This sector comprises:

Health care:

• ambulatory care services (offices of doctors, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists, speech therapists, audiologists);
• outpatient care centers (family planning, care for people with mental disorders, alcoholism, drug addiction);
• medical and diagnostic analysis laboratories (bacteriological, dental, biology, animal pathology, medical laboratories, X-rays);
• home health care services (home nurse, home physiotherapy, hygiene services, housework, dietetics, nutrition);
• other ambulatory care services (ambulance services, blood banks, sperm banks, eye banks, prenatal classes, anti-smoking clinics, blood collection);
• hospitals;
• nursing homes (convalescent homes, nursing homes, personal care homes);
• residential facilities for developmental disabilities, for mental disorders, for alcoholism and drug addiction;
• community aged care facilities;
• other residential care facilities (women's transition, homes for troubled children).

Social assistance

• individual and family services (child and youth services, services for the elderly and people with disabilities, marriage counselling, tracing, rescue, suicide, rape, offenders);
• community food and housing services, emergency services and other relief (food bank, soup kitchen, short-term housing for victims of domestic violence, homeless people, runaways);
• vocational rehabilitation services (clothing, medical care, counseling for victims of conflicts or disasters);
• daycare services (daycare for infants, children, preschools, kindergartens).