“I’m going to run on (being) number one in job creation,” BC Premier Christy Clark told the Liberal Party of BC convention last Saturday, boasting at one point that BC had created 57,000 jobs and that that was more than any province in Canada.
At the time, as I pointed out in a blog post, that claim was not true based on the most recent 12 consecutive months of jobs data for BC (and the country) as provided by Statistics Canada.
On Saturday, the most recent numbers available were for September, 2012.
Today, Statistics Canada released the numbers for October, 2012 and they were awful for British Columbia.
B.C. was number one all right — number one in job losses among any Canadian province with 10,900 fewer jobs in October than there were the previous month in September.
So here’s the update with the October jobs numbers:
- Total jobs created month-over-month (October 2012/September 2012): -10,900 (Worst) or -0.47% (2nd Worst). National numbers: +1,800 or +0.01%
- Total jobs created in last 12 months (Oct 12/Oct 11): +29,500 (4th best) or 1.29% (6th best). National numbers: +229,000 + 1.32%
- Total jobs since Clark announced “BC Jobs Plan” in Sept 2011: +18,600 (4th best) or +0.81% (6th best): National number: +176,300 or +1.01%