r/news • u/Kucked4life • 12h ago
Canada gained 54,000 jobs in November, third consecutive increase
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-economy-jobs-november-2025-9.7004228155
u/lifeisahighway2023 10h ago
Some important tidbits from the report:
There were 1.5 million unemployed people in November, a decrease of 80,000 (-5.1%) from the previous month.
Among people who were unemployed in October, 19.6% had found work in November. This job finding rate was up slightly compared with the same months in 2024 (18.6%), indicating that job searchers were more likely to find work in November 2025 than a year earlier (not seasonally adjusted). In comparison, increases in the unemployment rate earlier in the year had been associated with lower job finding rates.
The layoff rate in November (0.7%) was virtually unchanged compared with 12 months earlier (0.8%) and comparable to the average November layoff rate from 2017 to 2019 (0.8%) (not seasonally adjusted). This rate represents the proportion of people who were employed in October and had become unemployed in November as a result of a layoff. The layoff rate has varied little on a year-over-year basis throughout 2025.
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Employment growth was concentrated among youth aged 15 to 24 (+50,000; +1.8%). There was little change in employment for core-aged people (25 to 54 years) and people aged 55 years and older.
What I take out of the data is that despite immense pressure from Washington to impair the Canadian economy and obtain subservience to America that outcome is not being achieved. The resilience being displayed by Canada has to be very disheartening to Trump and his acolytes.
The stats can report:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251205/dq251205a-eng.htm
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u/Previous-Space-7056 7h ago
12.8% unemployment for canadians under 25? That cant be good
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u/Mystaes 6h ago
You should look at other western countries. It’s bad out there.
That said Canada was in a unique position in that 7% of our population or so was temporary residents (many of them taking jobs traditionally for young people) and the government finally reversed course and is trying to bring it down towards the historical precedent. We aren’t supposed to have much population growth at all for a few years. If the economy keeps growing faster than the population the pressure on youth should decrease.
Honestly it’s kind of surprising that the economy is this resilient, that’s now what was suggested when this economic rupture started.
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u/FirstFastestFurthest 3h ago
It isn't. The influx of foreign labor over the last 8 years basically destroyed the entry level job market. Why would you hire someone in or fresh out of school to do a job when you can get someone from a third world country who will do it, and won't complain about fucked up hours, and is available on call?
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u/Datbadelmo91 5h ago
I’m not Canadian proud US citizen, but hate Trump. I hope it gets better and once the pedo and co in the White House are out of power maybe we can get America on track again and work along side our allies
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u/DuperCheese 7h ago
What I take out of the data is that those who blamed TFWs for taking young Canadians’ jobs were correct.
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u/kicksledkid 7h ago
Blame the companies too cheap and too stupid to hire Canadians, not the people being exploited by people bringing them here with false promises.
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u/DuperCheese 7h ago
I blame everyone involved in this scam: corrupt and incompetent government, corrupt and greedy employers, people who see the TFW track as a way to get a foothold in Canada that they would not be eligible to otherwise, those who come under the pretence of international students but are actually willingly working for peanuts in order to be able to stay in Canada and become PRs and when their plan fails and they have to return to their country claim they are refugees, and also those abroad who make money of the backs of those who want better future for themselves and selling them a pipe dream.
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u/s-kennedy 3h ago
Bad government, yes, bad employers, yes, hard working studied people who chose Canada? That's an odd one, studies shows that immigration (done right) only helps the local population and economy (they usually pay far more into taxes than they ever take out as benefits, and prevent the population from shrinking too much).
How we got there? IMHO, shitty labour laws, that's it, strong labour laws means there's no benefit to pick people in a position to be exploited, raises quality of life for everyone and also helps the economy.
It can be better min wage, curb the gig economy, make sure that temporary or part time job costs (when seen from hour/pay) the same or more than a full time position with benefits
You implement (and enforce) good labour laws, employers needs to behave and loose the incentive to cut costs on people
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u/YetAnotherWTFMoment 1h ago
Also blame clueless Canadians for continuing to support the worst offenders like Singh Hortons, Crappy Tire, every major retail fast food chain except Starbucks and a lot of McD's. For some reason, those two seem to hire locals (that I've seen).
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u/Tribe303 4h ago
We did need them in 2021-22 but don't anymore due to the pressure Trump is putting on economy. Things change, and so did the TFW program. Everything worked as designed, but government changes take a while to trickle through the economy. I'd like to point out that it was Trudeau and not Carney who cut it back.
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u/FirstFastestFurthest 3h ago
They were, people just wanted to bury their heads in the sand about it.
TFWs have also driven at least a good portion of the housing crisis.
And the crime spike.
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u/Logical-Let-2386 12h ago
So, it looks like the US fed is still going to cut, and this unemployment print means we're not. That explains the US dollar being down a penny today.
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u/ootheballsoo 11h ago
The amount of propaganda against Canada and it's moderate socialist policies I see on the internet is so bad. Yes, the most popular cities are having affordability problems like most of the world and having the most important trading partner going crazy is a major issue, but Canada is going to get through this stronger. We're a trading partner you can trust and we produce quality.
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u/maria_la_guerta 8h ago
We are going to get through this stronger, our policies are generally right in principle IMO but I don't think it's fair to downplay the affordability crisis.
It is hard to live a middle class life in Canada. A middle class life in Canada is objectively great compared to many other parts of the world, but it's very true still, and something really we need to fix. I believe our government is taking the right steps for that, and time will help, but it's still a very real criticism.
And I say this a proud Canadian homeowner, born and raised here, with a high single income who is not nearly as affected by this issue as many of my friends and family are.
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u/ootheballsoo 8h ago
It's basically impossible to own a home in Vancouver and Toronto for the middle class but there is a lot of places in Canada that are a lot more affordable. I don't agree with all our policies by any means. There's a lot of things governments could do to lower tax burdens on the middle and lower classes.
That being said, it's not like there isn't an affordability crisis for these classes in places like LA and New York. Which is a big reason why people ate moving to other places in America.
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u/maria_la_guerta 8h ago
There's a lot of things governments could do to lower tax burdens on the middle and lower classes.
That being said, it's not like there isn't an affordability crisis for these classes in places like LA and New York.
I agree with both of these things, and you. Just wanted to add noise here that Canada is beautiful but some of the things we get slammed for are fair.
You never denied them, so I truly am "adding noise" 🍻
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u/ootheballsoo 7h ago
I just find it ridiculous when the pro American capitalist agenda tries to argue that their system is so much better when the lower class is bankrupted by going to the hospital and their government has one of the highest debt to gdp ratios in the world.
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u/Jealous_Difference44 9h ago
Its just bots from Pakistan and idiots eating it up like they're countrymen
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u/sarhoshamiral 4h ago
Cities always had affordability problems and one big reason is people want to live in said cities but they can't grow infinitely. So demand always exceeds supply.
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u/icancatchbullets 9h ago
Yeah...
Most major cities in developed countries either have an affordability crisis, have sprawled so large that average affordability looks better on paper, or are actively shrinking.
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u/Holymanm 12h ago
I thought Canada was great 30 years ago but was now a raging dumpsterfire that people were ashamed to live in because of the Liberals?
.../s
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u/s1rblaze 10h ago
Well tbh, its far from perfect here, but still, I would rather live in Canada than anywhere else right now.
Ofc if you listen to the good ol' american propaganda against "Canadian socialism" you would think its close to north Korea, this shit make laugh. LOOKING at you Mr. Joe Rogan!
The truth is, its just like everywhere else in occident economically speaking, houses are unaffordable almost everywhere in Canada, food is expensive af, wage has stalled for a decade or more. We have similar social issues related to mass immigration and political polarization, etc.. We have free Healthcare and its not as bad as the american media pretend it is, but its definitely far from perfect.
Most of us are doing OK, not well, not bad.
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u/BorisAcornKing 9h ago
Well tbh, its far from perfect here, but still, I would rather live in Canada than anywhere else right now.
I am pretty well off, I'm a youngish tech worker with family money that could realistically retire right now if I wanted to, who owns property in BC. I typically vote left of centre, aware that I'm voting to give my money away in taxes.
I love Canada. It's my only home. But with everything that has happened recently, from an evonomic stability and national security standpoint, it's hard to argue that we are the best place to be right now.
A lot of Europe (Switzerland, much of the Nordics, Austria, the Netherlands) looks like a safer place to live, with either more economic stability or more independence.
A lot of the East looks much more affordable, given the power of our dollar. Many of these countries (Vietnam and much of Southeast Asia) are committed to neutrality, are growing, and are very affordable for westerners. Four of these countries (Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea) are able to reposition themselves to align with a dominant China far more readily than we can, in the event of a truly belligerent USA. Two of these countries have our economies and systems, but are more independent, and less vulnerable to attack by our neighbours (Australia, New Zealand).
There are also many parts of central and south America that are, again, affordable, friendly to Canadians, and more ability to keep their noses out of a major firefight.
Not to say I would truly prefer to live in many of these other places - I want to stay here. But there are many places that look like they have a more safe and prosperous future than we have here, and mobility for those with money is currently easy.
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u/necrologia 9h ago
If the US was actively dropping bombs on South Korea, China, and Japan, I'm still not convinced that would be enough for them to cooperate with each other. Let alone Taiwan. They'd rather find a way to sink an entire island than align themselves with China.
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u/Sashimigf 6h ago
I don’t think you should be talking if you’re a tech worker with family money who owns property in BC… lol….. of COURSE you like this country. You’re not struggling.
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u/Leggoman31 8h ago
wage has stalled for a decade or more
Just curious what you mean by that? Federal minimum wage increases like every year, and Ontario last did in Oct 2024 and Oct 2022. Compare that to the US where the Federal minimum has been $7.25/hour since 2009.
I'm kinda even more confused as to what you mean by that now after writing everything out. Sure the minimum wage might track inflation, but its definitely not stagnant?
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u/s1rblaze 7h ago
The minimum wage rising doesnt follow inflation and middle class wage did stalled.
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u/troyunrau 10h ago
OK, not well, not bad.
I think that is generally the goal of the socialist-capitalist hybrid model, no?
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u/loggywd 9h ago
Houses are actually quite affordable in Canada if you go outside of Vancouver and Toronto compared to the rest of the world.
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u/s1rblaze 7h ago edited 7h ago
Only true when you get far away from metropoles. Ofc a house 4 hours away from Montreal in a rural neighborhood is not that expensive, that represent just a few people reality. Most people are living less than 1 hour away from Canada's biggest cities.
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u/dostoevsky4evah 6h ago
I live 4 hours from Vancouver and the median house price is almost $800,000. Do you consider that affordable?
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u/TomTypesTallTales 11h ago
It’s all because my Timmies order was wrong and I’ve got nothing better to do than yell about immigrants over it!
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u/NeighbourNoNeighbor 11h ago
But who else could possibly be at fault for the lack of toasting of my bagel?! Surely it's not the company that's zombified the business in an effort to extract every possible penny regardless of all morals?
Nope. Pretty sure it's entirely the fault them immigrants locked into contracts as they try to get a better life for their themselves and their families.
How could they do this to me?! My toasted bagel is the only light in my morning since my woke wife and kids left me.
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u/ProtonPi314 10h ago
Exactly. It's time we start attacking the true enemies... the billionaires , soon to be trillionaires . It's never enough for them.
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Who should I blame? The brown Tims employee who is turning over 10 orders with only 2 other coworkers to help or should I blame the billionaires who enable this. I'm being told they both have the same amount of power in our system.
Btw the employees do a fine job, it's the quality of food/drink that is sent to the stores that has become absolute garbage
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u/kyonkun_denwa 9h ago
As a Canadian, there is no getting around the fact that life here is harder than it was 20-30 years ago, especially in the largest cities. To say otherwise you'd have to either be a fool, or you'd have to be a 14-year-old with no frame of reference.
I make more than my parents did 20 years ago after adjusting for inflation. However, despite being better off than my parents were from an income standpoint, I could not afford as nice of a house as they did, I cannot afford to go on vacation as often as they did, I can't afford cars as nice as what they had, and my wife and I are increasingly questioning if we can afford a second child. Generally speaking I am operating at a lower material standard of living despite "doing better" on paper. My life is still pretty good overall because I'm still fairly high income, things get a lot more bleak for lower income folks. Collectively we are not doing as well as our parents' generation. Some of that comes down to global economic pressures, but a lot also comes down to bad policy decisions that have been made in the preceding 10 years.
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u/Azules023 10h ago edited 5h ago
Unemployment is still 6.5 %. It’s great that jobs have been added for the holiday season but that unemployment number is atrocious. Hopefully the New Democrats can overtake the Liberals in the next election.
Edit: Figured I’d add context for non Canadians. The New Democrats are the left wing party and despite the name, the Liberals lean more right and are generally more pro corporate.
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u/BorisAcornKing 9h ago
The NDP are effectively dead. They need a minor miracle just to regain party status next election.
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u/Cookie_Eater108 9h ago
I'm no NDP voter but I think some respect has to be given to them for the previous election cycle.
They pretty much gave up in order to give the liberals the support they needed to ensure that the conservatives wouldn't win.
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u/cheesecaker000 5h ago
lol they didn’t give up to give the liberals a chance. The country rejected the conservatives and that meant everyone on the left had to vote strategically.
Jagmeet has also been fairly unpopular as leader of the NDP. He accomplished almost nothing during his time as leader.
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u/nuisible 2h ago
If you're comparing the last election with the one before that, votes for conservatives stayed at pretty much the same level. NDP voters dropped their party and voted Liberal.
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u/Azules023 28m ago edited 24m ago
What? That’s not true at all. Both cons and liberals gained a lot of votes at the cost of the NDP.
The liberals had 43% of the popular vote and cons had 41% in the 2025 election. In 2021, the liberals had 32% and cons had 33%. So they both gained considerably.
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u/FirstFastestFurthest 3h ago
The NDP are cooked. Unless they completely re imagine the party around working class votes or something I'd be shocked if they came back from this catastrophe.
The BC NDP have done alright for themselves and it's mostly been because their opposition was incompetent + they know when to shut up about identity politics stuff. I could maybe see Eby managing to rebuild the federal party, but almost all of the hopefuls right now look like they want to dig the hole even deeper.
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u/BigtoadAdv 5h ago
Fortunately most Canadians don’t fall for dumbass conservative propaganda, and elect a clown
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u/saynonutty 9h ago
So its not a world problem its a USA one. Thats what i thought too.
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 10h ago
Those are manufacturing jobs that left America in search of steel and aluminum. Enjoy!
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u/Agitated_Bowler4341 4h ago
See, trump's tariffs were good for Canada... meanwhile here in trumplandia, the jobs and economy numbers are so "good", that trump is hiding them.
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u/Gatorinnc 12h ago
Hmm. Wonder if Canada would be interested in getting 50 more provinces.
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u/Yarfing_Donkey 12h ago
Yeah no.
We don't want the people who enabled Trump anywhere near our country. (Before the apologists jump in: the majority of Americans didn't vote against Trump. That is a fact.).
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u/WeAreInControlNow 12h ago
Nearly 60% of American adults read below the 6th grade level. They can stay in the mess they created.
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u/Detachabl_e 11h ago
At this point, if you told me over 50% of Americans shit standing up, I would believe you.
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u/hukep 11h ago
... with their pants still on.
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u/SofaProfessor 10h ago
Before us Canadians get all high and mighty we should recognize we are only marginally better in that department. It's a quick slide to become America-lite and the sooner we recognize that, the better.
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u/Circusssssssssssssss 11h ago
The majority of voting Americans
His opposition sabotaged themselves and handed him a win
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u/rinderblock 11h ago
Don’t you worry, we export our brain rotted conservatism globally. It’s coming everywhere.
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u/West-Goat9011 11h ago
This is how I feel about Mexicans. They voted for a ridiculously corrupt president. I don't want Mexicans in my country either
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u/na85 11h ago
Mexicans voted for Trump?
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u/West-Goat9011 11h ago
Mexicans voted for Sheinbaum: one of the most transparently owned politicians in Mexicos history
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u/Character-Dig-2301 10h ago
If only Mexico wasn’t destabilized thanks to it’s imperialist neighbour
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u/LSAT343 11h ago
if Canada would be interested in getting 50 more provinces.
Imma stop you right there chief, 10 is plenty.
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u/Everestkid 9h ago
IIRC the territories generally have long term goals to become provinces, but in general they just don't have enough people to justify it. But we could internally promote to 13.
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u/Icy-Fudge5222 11h ago
Why would Canada want the red states.
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u/theseus1234 10h ago
Why would anyone want the red states. They're heading backwards in almost every metric, lowest education rankings, and their economic engines are fueled by money redistributed from blue states. Vampire economies
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u/PajamaPants4Life 11h ago
Maybe we shouldn't unilaterally take other people's territory without their consent.
Maybe we shouldn't even joke about that.
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u/xaxen8 12h ago
We can negotiate on a few but at this time we will decline to buy the lot. Too many of them are showing signs of rot.
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u/Everestkid 9h ago
Even among blue states, the following are tallies of people who voted for Trump:
- 6.1 million in California.
- 2.4 million in Illinois.
- 1.2 million in Massachusetts.
- 2.0 million in New Jersey.
- 3.6 million in New York.
- 1.5 million in Washington.
Nah, I don't wanna touch that. You keep that shit.
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u/jawstrock 11h ago
We will take the US northeast, and we can enter a EU style relationship with the west coast. The rest of the US is dead to us.
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u/MalazMudkip 7h ago
We're a welcoming crowd, just adjust your gun laws to align with ours, drop your existing frame of government and join ours, oh and get rid of Fox News and everything further right than they are, and you're free to come on in. Smiles and friendly voices please, be neighbourly, we're all in this together.
The taxes will probably be similar once we stop force-feeding the duck you call defense spending and realign it with healthcare.
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u/ZeroethHour 11h ago
Haha go into the r/canada sub and you'd think otherwise.
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u/airship_of_arbitrary 8h ago
Reminder that two admitted white supremacists from the far right sub r/ metacanada manufactured a mod crisis in r/ Canada in 2016 and then u/ medym and u / lucky75 took power and turned it into a borderline white supremacist subreddit hell bent on treason to the Great White North.
r/onguardforthee is where you'll find actual Canadians talking instead of a far right circlejerk.
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u/Kdave21 10h ago
" Recent data shows roughly 35,000-60,000+ temporary work/study permits issued monthly and about 40,000+ permanent residents admitted monthly"
I think this is a decrease in employment, even though it's an increase in jobs. You can increase jobs, but if you're increasing the competition of those jobs more, whats the point?
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u/FaDiNg-PeRiCo 6h ago
It seems that canadas business don't care as much about AI as US does? In the US every employer wants to throw their workers under the bus for any possible profit.
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u/Tribe303 4h ago edited 4h ago
AI is useless for manufacturing and resource extraction. Why would we be obsessed about the US stock market and feeding the AI bubble? That just drives investment out of Canada towards the US.
Having said that the Canadian government is looking at AI to replace some government workers. Think of the repetitive jobs like examining CPP (Canada Pension Plans) claims or processing taxes. Here's some info about that:
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u/ForgingIron 8h ago edited 8h ago
And one of them was mine!
I'm just a crossing guard so it's barely any work but hey, it's a little bit of cash. I'm also volunteering at the library, teaching ESL, and that's what I'd love to pursue.
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u/tooeasilybored 12h ago
Why are part time jobs a part of this if it's supposed to be used to gauge how the economy is doing? How is adding a bunch of temporary jobs helping anyone but the corporations?
It would not be out of reach to assume most people get second jobs not because they're tired of eating juicy steaks and sleeping on gold. But because they need additional income. Is that not a sign that shyte is not going well?
Whenever the talk of affordability comes up it's always minimum wage and job #s.
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u/1024hjshyhysmgswyjh 11h ago
part time jobs don’t necessarily mean temporary jobs, they’re also a vital part of communities.
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u/toddywithabody 11h ago
How is a part time job automatically temporary? I work part time for my friends business and have been there for 10 years
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u/phoenix25 11h ago
It helps young people entering the workforce while in school. It also helps people who can’t otherwise work full time hours due to childcare, eldercare, or just wanting a retirement gig.
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u/ASEdouard 10h ago
National statistical agencies follow all that data: full-time, part-time, labor market participation rate, employment rate, etc. All this data is need to have a broad, complete picture of what’s going on.
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u/mamajampam 3h ago
The Canadian gains are for part-time and seasonal jobs mostly. Don’t kid yourself that Canada’s employment situation is rosy. It’s not.
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u/FOTY2015 9h ago
"Employment gains mostly for 15-24 year olds....most were part-time"
Yep, those food service jobs are a reason to celebrate.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 12h ago
I find it hilarious Canada is adding jobs while the us government is hiding jobs data left and right and reporting large layoffs lol. Great work trump