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A senior official with a U.S. investment bank recently told The Canadian Press that «the world may end sooner than we thought» under Mr. Trudeau.
But it also appears that the economy in 2015 is headed in a more positive direction. According to the latest Statistics Canada payroll report, employment in Canada last month rose to a seasonally adjusted 209,300 (9,500 fewer tha솔레어 카지노n a year ago). At the same time, the number of full-time jobs rose by 5,300, or a whopping 75 per cent, or more than double the 2,100,000 jobs added a year ago. The jobless rate ticked up to 7.4 per cent for the first time in nearly four years.
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«There’s been a lot of progress and progress,» said Steve Clark, chief economist at CIBC World Markets.
But there are some key differences. The number of Canadians working full-time, or without a contract, increased by a modest 10,700 or 4.1 per cent over the past year. That represents a fall of about 100,000 workers since the last full-time jobs report. Those changes are not reflected in the overall numbers.
While employment gains are encouraging, there remains some question about how much their positive outlook translates into higher growth in real wages f보성출장안마or workers. The Bank of Canada said last month that it doesn’t expect real average consumer price inflation to move much higher than Canada’s 2.5 per cent. Still, if the unemployment rate increases a hair, Canadians should at least get a taste for what it would cost.
Even more significant is that the labour force participation rate, a key indicator of how many Canadians work, h온라인 슬롯 머신 사이트as slipped since the early 1990s to 62.7 per cent in October from 63.9 per cent in October 2013, according to Statistics Canada.
Economists will be paying close attention to the jobs numbers in April and April’s forecast from Statistics Canada on June 16th as well as in the fall election campaign ahead.
