By Brian Lilley I’m not sure why Mark Carney wants to keep comparing Canada’s job numbers to the Americans and claim that we are winning, but there he was again today. Both Statistics Canada and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released their respective employment reports for February on Friday morning. High level numbers: Canada lost 108,400 full-time jobs, gained 24,500 part-time jobs for a total reduction of 83,900 jobs and our unemployment rate increased to 6.7%. The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs and has an unemployment rate of 4.4%. You will note that my list of comparisons is not exact. That’s because StatsCan and the Bureau of Labor Statistics measure things differently. Canada’s way of measuring unemployment boosts the unemployment rate higher, but even after adjusting for those differences, our unemployment rate is higher. The American unemployment rate of 4.4% if converted to Canadian measurements would be around 4.8%. So that means that the American unemployment rate is far lower than Canada’s and yet this is Mark Carney’s reply when asked about it today, say we are doing better than the Americans. Carney’s use of a six-month metric is strange. We normally compare month over month of year over year. Since February 2025 we have added 347,300 people to the working age of population of those 15 and older. Most of that remains an increase due to immigration, not natural population growth. Of that increase of 347,300 people just 82,200 were added to the labour force, meaning those looking for work and 51,400 have found work and 30,400 have been added to the unemployment rolls. These are not good numbers. Oh, and the unemployment rate for those aged 15-24 jumped up from 12.8% to 14.1%. These are not good numbers. Yes, some of this is caused by Trump’s tariffs out Washington, but not all of it. When Mark Carney tells us we are doing well, that we are doing better than the Americans, he’s lying to us. The lies that we tell ourselves can be the most dangerous. this shows just how big of a liar the Carney clown is yet some have amnesia and forget his previous lies as soon as he moves on to his next blunder!! Beloud