TREVOR BOLIN -- The lowest un-employment? Only if Mungall qualifies her comments by acknowledging, as StatsCan noted, people simply gave up looking for work
The following is a commentary from Trevor Bolin, leader of the BC Conservative Party Last Friday, Michelle Mungall, Minister of Jobs, Economic Development and Competitiveness, issued a statement regarding Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey for January 2020 . In it, she stated, “ The January labour force report kicks off 2020, demonstrating that our approach of building a stable economy is working ”. “ BC starts the new year, again, with the lowest unemployment rate in Canada ”, and then continued saying, “ Our government was elected 30 months ago, and for 29 of those months, BC has had the lowest unemployment in the country”. “In January, BC’s unemployment rate fell further to 4.5% — well below the national average ”. So how accurate is what she had to say? Well I seriously have a hard time figuring out how she could make that declaration, given reality. The Stats-Can Report states that ... the rate declined ... in British Columbia (down...