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@kruick Tight would be the unemployment rate, which should be unchanged regardless of immigration, so the labour market would be even tighter with less immigration. If you're referring to the number of employed persons, yes that would would be shrinking without immigration due to people...

@aaronq10 The numbers are seasonally adjusted. For your information there are 414,000 more people employed than a year ago...

@looploop No, they also track multiple jobholders. That's at 5.4% and went slightly down from last month. Part time jobs would be driven by new people entering the labour force. Multiple jobholders by occupation, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality...

@raffadalbo :o How can you possibly know this if the CRA doesn't even know? Do you have a time machine? /s

@resjudicata You also need to consider boomers retiring.

@cleonardjr Though over the last year, there's been 299,000 more private sector jobs and 81,000 more public sector jobs.

@sa_m Average hours worked is also up +3.9% YoY (+1.3 hours to 34.4 hours). This makes sense as the overall trend is a decrease in part time workers YoY (18.7% -> 18.1%) Average Hours Worked -...

@sa_m Yet average hourly wages is up 5.2% YoY (+$1.66 to $33.38).

@abenezer 15.2% of part time workers.

@sa_m Note that 18.1% of the workforce is part time employed, this is down from 18.7% a year earlier. Of the part time workers, only 15.2% would prefer a full-time position. Not everyone is looking for full-time work. Also, there is a reason that stat-can characterized the full-time number as...