As Alberta's fortunes flourish with the oil-sands boom, manufacturers such as Kacee Vasudeva of Waterloo, Ont., are suffering under a high dollar.
Mr. Vasudeva is the chief executive officer of the auto-parts manufacturing company Maxtech Manufacturing Inc.
After building the company from scratch, he has watched helplessly as Maxtech closed two plants and reduced its work force to 330 from 525.
The best-case scenario, he says, would be to start manufacturing goods for the Alberta oil sector, but he needs help first and he wants the government to step up. "When farmers in Saskatchewan had a drought there, we all helped them."
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