Edmonton’s September unemployment rate hits 9%, StatCan data shows

Edmonton is present pacing the country’s largest municipalities erstwhile it comes the jobless numbers.

Statistics Canada’s September numbers amusement the unemployment complaint successful Alberta’s superior sits astatine 9 per cent.

That’s up from 8.6 per cent the period earlier and supra the nationalist mean of 6.5 per cent.

Moshe Lander with Concordia University’s section of economics says it could beryllium the fig of radical moving into the state that’s driving up that number.

“There’s a misconception that radical determination to Alberta and instantaneously commencement a occupation connected Monday. That’s not the mode it works,” Lander said.

“It’s not that the system is needfully soft, it’s not that Alberta’s weak, it’s conscionable that radical are moving faster than determination are jobs to sorb them.”

Lander says the clip of twelvemonth could besides beryllium a factor.

He says unemployment often rises successful the summertime earlier radical instrumentality to enactment successful the autumn and winter.

“I would astir apt privation to spot whether this is conscionable what happens successful Canadian summertime oregon this is the opening of a worrying inclination wherever it’s going to beryllium persistent starring the Canadian rankings successful unemployment numbers,” Lander said.

Lander adds that volition instrumentality much information to find Edmonton’s trends.

Calgary and Lethbridge are the different 2 Alberta cities included successful Statistics Canada’s report. Calgary’s jobless complaint is 7.4 per cent and Lethbridge’s is 5.1 per cent.

Windsor is the lone different metropolis with an unemployment complaint much than 8 per cent astatine 8.9.