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@ineedtovent24 Read the title again. Employment gain, not job gain. The multiple jobholders report shows that the number of people with multiple jobs went down.

@operatoractual I know you jest, but for those actually wondering, the multiple jobholders report shows an relative increase of 55,000 people having multiple jobs since Trudeau became PM.

@esdras I've been doing that for decades, but I tell the employer. My current employer on one side was even like "When things get busy with your other job you can take some paid time off."

@garryson Involuntary part-timers didn't change meaningfully, though. Of those who are recorded as being part-time, most either want to be or have to be (e.g. due to illness). Thing is, people also leave the workforce. It is quite possible that all 80,000 people now have full-time employment.

@mag8166 Statistics Canada is the agency charged to provide the counts, often collected from other agencies, so it stands to reason that they are the only one you are going to count on. That is their whole reason for existence.

@resjudicata With the average Baby Boomer turning 65 right around now, I'm not sure we can look for participation growth. Sustainment would be impressive.

@sa_m Why would I care about what some other guy said? More succinctly, why did you think I would care about what some other guy said?

@sa_m In receiving a message about 30 hours being full-time, per the definition used by the source of this information, you learned that part-time retail jobs are better than professional STEM jobs for the economy...? Well, let me tell you that these figures come from the month of April. I...

@sa_m Statscan defines full-time as "usually worked 30 hours or more per week". Nobody is talking about 40 hours. Where did you dream that one up?

@sa_m Which is the "soft landing" the BoC was looking for. Decimating high paying jobs while not seeing people completely left without a way to make an income has been the goal all along.