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Not Canadian. Real question: is this the impact of having a normal human at the helm?

No. I wouldn't look at the month to month; focus on annual statistics and larger trends. Monthlies are mostly for posturing and hot takes (like say, "human at the helm"), not for the over all trend of the country.

Both US and Canada play games with the word "unemployment", whose definition is very questionable in and of itself.

The article says lowest in 2 years. That's not monthly. Also has a chart going back to 2021 (when the rate was like 9%). But this current rate (6.4) is above the lowest of the last five years (5%)

It's still monthly if you're only looking at a single monthly point outlier (1 month happened to be the lowest in 2 years). If unemployment stays (or improves) at this level for another month or two, then I'd start listening. Otherwise it's a blip.

Yeah, I wish journalists would just look up the EM-ployment rate and go from there. The official "unemployment" rate is based on who is collecting benefits. It doesn't count those unemployed but not collecting benefits.

He's not the man we deserve but he's the man we need.

He's got beauty, he's got grace, it's Mark Carney against the States.

Making everyone say "Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...ark (Carney)".

Noah built an ark, we got ourselves a Mark.

You can take my Karma, but you can never take my Carney. (I know, I know you actually can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_by_the_...)

Does that answer your question?

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