Canada’s growing part-time job problem exposed in 3 graphs

Published October 6, 2014

Stephen Harper likes to portray himself as Canada’s job-creator-in-chief. But if you peel back the rhetoric and take a closer look at the labour market, Canada has been undergoing a quiet transformation in favour of part-time jobs. “This type of unsteady or precarious work is a quieter or less visible trend in Canada’s labour market, […]

3 stinging graphs that cut Stephen Harper’s million jobs problem wide open

Published July 15, 2014

First, Tim Hudak had a “Million Jobs Plan” problem. he Conservative Party recently launched the “We’re better off with Harper” campaign with the claim that “with over one million net new jobs created in the recovery, Canada’s economy is on the right track – thanks to the strong leadership of Stephen Harper and Canada’s Conservatives.” […]

Stephen Harper’s Temporary Canadian Worker problem

Published July 11, 2014

You thought Canada had a problem with temporary foreign workers? Actually, temporary work for Canadians is thriving under the Conservatives. New job numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada show a troubling trend underneath bad top line numbers that saw Canada shed 9,400 jobs in June: nearly one in four jobs created in the last 5 years has […]

The Conservative economic record: 665,000 missing jobs

Published May 9, 2014

Employers eliminated 30,900 full-time jobs last month and 25,600 Canadians left the labour force altogether, Statistics Canada job numbers released Friday show. With an increase of just 2,000 part-time jobs for a net loss of 28,900 jobs, Erin Weir, an economist with United Steelworkers, puts the bad news in context. “This large decline in employment coincided […]

Public servants warned Jason Kenney of “obvious data gaps” in jobs stats: internal docs

Published April 23, 2014

Employment Minister Jason Kenney was told of “obvious data gaps” about the jobs market by his department even as he refuses to implement “numerous recommendations” of an expert panel to collect better labour market information, internal records show. The memo and supporting documents to Employment Minister Jason Kenney, prepared last fall in preparation for a […]

Do the Conservatives fudge the numbers to sell economic choices?

Published March 31, 2014

When the Harper government announced in December that they had no plans to expand the Canada Pension Plan to tackle retirement insecurity, they justified the decision by explaining the move would kill between 17,000 and 50,000 jobs. Turns out that’s not quite true. Finance Canada documents released under Access to Information, provided to PressProgress […]

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