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The 31,000 jobs lost in July comes after 43,000 jobs were already lost in the month of June.
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(LifeSiteNews) — Statistics Canada’s most recent data shows that the number of jobs in the nation dropped by over 30,000 in July, bringing the total number of jobs lost in the last two months to nearly 75,000.
The healthcare sector alone made up 22,000 of those 53,000 lost jobs, which is a sector that has become notorious in Canada for already having a destabilizing worker shortage.
Despite the “unexpected” decrease in jobs through June and July – economists had predicted a job increase — the unemployment rate reportedly remained the same at a low 4.9 percent.
According to CBC News, this is because as the number of jobs in existence has gone down, so too has the number of Canadians looking for jobs.