The Canadian jobs market is still very tight despite the hiring by employers over the past year, leaving the country with a low unemployment rate of 5.4 percent at the end of June, only half a percentage point up from the same time last year.
In his latest Regional Labour Market Report Card: National Heat Wave, BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic notes that Canadian employment rose by 84,000 in the second quarter of this year, a softer pace of hiring than at the start of the year.
The report, prepared just before the worst of the British Columbia forest fire season, includes a list of the top cities for workers to find jobs based on a number of metrics including unemployment rate and population growth.