Madame Premier … what do you have to say?

Statistics Canada has released its latest Jobs Report for May.  That report shows that employment across the country is staying stable, however the largest reason for that may be the continued growth of jobs in Alberta and Saskatchewan, along with the province of Quebec.

So how did we fare in Western Canada? 

Alberta had an increase in employment with 9,800 net new jobs; their unemployment rate now stands at just 4.5 percent ... Manitoba basically remained the same as they went from from 5.3% to 5.1% ... and Saskatchewan still has the lowest unemployment rate in Canada at 4.1 percent.

And how do things look here in British Columbia? 

Well our unemployment rate jumped from 6.2% to now stand at 7.4% … and there were 30,500 more people looking for jobs.

I for one am puzzled by the latest job numbers from Statistics Canada.  After all the photo-ops and foreign trade missions, why does this so-called free enterprise government have the worst job record in Western Canada.

Madame Premier … what do you have to say?  Better yet, what do you think, and have to say, after reading this?  I’d be interested to know.

I’m Alan Forseth in Kamloops … with the thoughts of one conservative.