About

Pendalogue answers hard economic questions about Canadian regions with public data. Every figure is traceable to the Statistics Canada table it comes from, and every page is checked against that data before it is published. The first analysis asks how tied each Ontario county is to demand from the United States, and how much of that sits on goods the United States now tariffs.

Why counties

Statistics Canada publishes Ontario's exports by industry for the province, and exports for its census metropolitan areas, but not for counties. Counties outside every metropolitan area have no published export figure at all. This site allocates Ontario's exports to all of its counties by the industries their residents work in, checks the allocation where a published figure exists, and says plainly where it cannot be checked. The methods page sets out how, and its limits.

Who writes it

Pendalogue is built by Jeff Ahmadi, a data analyst. The analysis, the checks and the words on every page are his, and he answers for them.

Get in touch

If you plan for an Ontario county, in workforce planning or economic development, and want to talk about your county's figures, or think a figure is wrong, write to jahmadi@pendalogue.ca. A figure questioned by a reader is checked against the data the same day.

What this site does not do

It carries no advertising, no tracker, no cookie and no analytics. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any government or statistical agency.

Sources and notices

Published 2026-10-14. Figures rest on Ontario's exports in 2022; US duties paid, 2026-06 to 2026-08; US tariffs as of 2026-10-14.

Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 12-10-0100-01, Value added in exports, by industry, provincial and territorial (2022); table 98-10-0592-01, Class of worker by industry groups, labour force status, age and gender, Canada, provinces and territories and census divisions (2021 Census); the Canadian International Merchandise Trade Database, domestic exports to the United States by product (2022); table 12-10-0138-01, Trade in goods by exporter characteristics, by industry of establishment and census metropolitan area (2021 and 2022); table 98-10-0448-01, Industry groups by class of worker including job permanency, labour force status, age and gender, Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts (2021 Census); table 12-10-0180-01, Rural Canada Trade Profiles, export of goods, number of exporting establishments and trade value, by industry and location indicator (2022); table 98-10-0456-01, Place of work status by industry sectors, occupation broad category and gender, census divisions and census subdivisions (2021 Census); table 98-10-0459-01, Commuting flow from geography of residence to geography of work by gender, census subdivisions (2021 Census); table 12-10-0173-01, Merchandise trade by province and country, by product sections, annual (2022 to the latest full year); table 12-10-0175-01, International merchandise trade by province, commodity and principal trading partners, monthly (2022 to the latest month); table 12-10-0176-01, Canadian international merchandise trade by industry for all countries, monthly (2022). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. The data are used under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau. US imports from Canada by tariff line, and the duties recorded on them, are from the US Census Bureau's international trade data.

Pendalogue is independent. It is not affiliated with Statistics Canada, the Government of Canada or the US Census Bureau, and uses no logo or symbol of theirs.