Of all of the Canadian provinces, Quebec ended 2022 with the bottom unemployment fee, at 4.3%, in comparison with 5.3% for Canada as a complete and 5.6% for Ontario.
Cheer ! However François Legault and his two bonzes of the financial system, the Minister of Finance Eric Girard and his tremendous Minister of the Financial system and Power Pierre Fitzgibbon, have they got a lot to point out off? No !
In comparison with the pre-pandemic 12 months of 2019, the “efficiency” in job creation of Legault’s financial group solely comes near Doug Ford’s Ontario financial group.
Thus, in keeping with information compiled by Statistics Canada and Statistics Quebec, barely 72,600 jobs have been created in Quebec over the previous three years. This represents solely 12.5% of all the roles created in Canada throughout these three years.
That is clearly beneath the burden of the lively inhabitants of Quebec within the nation, which quantities to 22.2%.
Throughout that very same three-year interval, Ontario created 306,100 jobs. Thus, beneath the federal government of Doug Ford, Ontario can boast of getting created 52.7% of the 580,900 jobs which have been added to the Canadian workforce since 2019.
That is 13.3 share factors greater than the burden of Ontario’s working inhabitants (39.4%) in Canada.
We agree that Ontario has thus recorded a rare efficiency over the previous three years in comparison with 2019, which at present serves as a “benchmark” as a standard 12 months earlier than the beginning of 2020 of the pandemic, in 2020.
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Modesty obliges
I might additionally invite Messrs. Legault, Girard and Fitzgibbon to be modest once they reward our low unemployment fee of 4.3%. And above all, to not evaluate it to the Ontario unemployment fee of 5.6%.
The distinction between the 2 unemployment charges is attributable to the truth that the labor pressure has elevated little or no in Quebec over the previous three years in comparison with the Ontario labor pressure.
Whereas the labor pressure elevated by 36,500 in Quebec, it exploded by 320,800 in Ontario. Ontario accounted for 62.6% of the rise within the nation’s labor pressure and Quebec barely 7.1%.
With such weak progress in its labor pressure, we perceive why Quebec is going through a critical labor scarcity disaster!
The place has Quebec created essentially the most jobs over the previous three years?
The personal is pale
Within the Quebec public sector, which sector contains workers from varied ranges of presidency and para-government (federal, provincial, municipal), Crown firms, and so on.
In comparison with 2019, Quebec had some 98,800 extra authorities workers in 2022.
Throughout this similar three-year interval, the personal sector recruited simply 36,200 extra workers.
Whereas the variety of workers within the Quebec public sector grew by 10.5%, the personal sector recorded an anemic enhance of 1.3%.
Throughout these similar three years, the variety of self-employed employees fell by some 62,400.
Fewer well being jobs!
Final statement and never the least. The “well being care and social help” sector has misplaced 1,000 workers since 2019.
I invite François Legault and his Minister of Well being, Christian Dubé, to elucidate to us the ins and outs of this astonishing lack of personnel within the neuralgic well being sector.
EVOLUTION OF THE JOB MARKET IN QUEBEC BETWEEN 2019 AND 2022
Exercise space : Items sector
Variety of positions in 2022: 921,000
Change in comparison with 2019: + 35,300
Exercise space : Main sector
Variety of positions in 2022: 101,400
Change in comparison with 2019: + 4900
Exercise space : Public companies
Variety of positions in 2022: 28,500
Change in comparison with 2019: + 3100
Exercise space : Development
Variety of positions in 2022: 294,300
Change in comparison with 2019: + 27,700
Exercise space : Manufacturing
Variety of positions in 2022: 496,800
Change in comparison with 2019: – 400
Exercise space : Service sector
Variety of positions in 2022: 3,459,700
Change in comparison with 2019: + 37,300
Exercise space : Commerce
Variety of positions in 2022: 646,700
Change in comparison with 2019: – 10,700
Exercise space : Transport and storage
Variety of positions in 2022: 226,400
Change in comparison with 2019: – 13,000
Exercise space : Monetary and actual property
Variety of positions in 2022: 272,600
Change in comparison with 2019: + 33,900
Exercise space : Skilled companies
Variety of positions in 2022: 381,500
Change in comparison with 2019: + 35,500
Exercise space : Enterprise companies
Variety of positions in 2022: 166,300
Change in comparison with 2019: – 11,500
Exercise space : Instructional companies
Variety of positions in 2022: 344,700
Change in comparison with 2019: + 44,400
Exercise space : Well being care
Variety of positions in 2022: 605 400
Change in comparison with 2019: – 1000
Exercise space : Info, tradition and leisure
Variety of positions in 2022: 181,600
Change in comparison with 2019: + 8900
Exercise space : Lodging and catering
Variety of positions in 2022: 198,400
Change in comparison with 2019: – 56,000
Exercise space : Different companies
Variety of positions in 2022: 163,000
Change in comparison with 2019: – 17,400
Exercise space : Public administration
Variety of positions in 2022: 273 100
Change in comparison with 2019: + 24,200
Sources: Statistics Canada and Statistical Institute of Quebec