Minister Boissonnault provides next steps on recent changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
According to the latest data from the Labour Force Survey, the overall unemployment rate rose from 6.4% to 6.6%. The unemployment rate trended up since April 2023, rising 1.5 percentage points over the period. In August 2024, there were 1.5 million unemployed people, an increase of 60,000 (+4.3%) from the previous month.