"I think ... the manufacturing sector (is) quite pleased that we have a dollar that the value is down from what it was a number of months ago," Sorenson, secretary of state for finance, told reporters. "I would say that with the dollar being low there is remarkable opportunity. We're an exporting country and as you know by far the majority of everything we manufacture here and everything we grow here we export and so there's opportunity."

(Reporting by Leah Schnurr in Toronto and Louise Egan and David Ljunggren in Ottawa; Writing by Randall Palmer; Editing by James Dalgleish)