Surprise, Surprise: The Harper Government has lied to Canadians...... STILL

Yes Canada it is not that the HarperCons have lied again, it is that they don't know what being honest is so they tell you what they think you should hear.... and that translates into lies.

Canada's job growth not best in G7, OECD finds

Harper government claims of job growth not borne out by employment rate figures

The Canadian Press Posted: Apr 23, 2014 2:36 PM ET Last Updated: Apr 23, 2014 2:36 PM ET

 

A new OECD report suggests Canada's labour market has yet to fully recover from the recession and is not the strongest in the G7, as often claimed by the Harper government.

The numbers from Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development suggests Canada places fifth in terms of job creation.

The OECD data measures what economists call the employment rate, which is the percentage of the working age population that actually has a job.

By that measure, only two countries in the G7 — Germany and Japan — have a higher percentage of employed today than when the recession began in the fall of 2008. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom and France are close to returning to pre-slump levels.

Canada's employment rate at the end of 2013 stood at 72.4 per cent among 15 to 64 year olds which, while high, is still 1.3 percentage points lower than before the recession.

'In a nutshell, all we've done is keep up with population growth. Just looking at jobs created is going to put Canada in a better light just by dint that we have much stronger population growth, so that's probably not the fairest way to compare ourselves to others'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-s-job-growth-not-best-in-g7-oecd-finds-1.2619439