“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.
Continue reading Latest job numbers: BC is number one — in job losses