B.C. loses more jobs in March, unemployment rate highest in a decade - BERITAJA

B.C. continues to suffer jobs, the latest numbers show, arsenic Statistics Canada reports that the state mislaid 19,000 jobs successful March.

The unemployment complaint is now 6.7 per cent, which is the highest successful a decade, isolated from for the tallness of the COVID pandemic.

So acold this year, B.C. has mislaid about 36,000 jobs.

“We’ve had losses successful wholesale trade, we’ve had transportation, warehousing, finance, insurance, a very wide guidelines successful position of our system correct now, it seems, for immoderate of those losses,” Bryan Yu, a main economist pinch Central 1, told BERITAJA.

There were, however, jobs gained successful manufacturing, services and earthy resources.

B.C.’s Minister of Jobs and Economic Growth said location are still things to celebrate.

“We’ve seen $2 cardinal successful finance to B.C. successful mining, we person $50 cardinal that is successful last finance decision, Netflix conscionable opened up a caller workplace successful Vancouver, truthful we proceed to spot agleam spots successful the economy,” Ravi Kahlon said.

“But location are immoderate sectors that are facing existent challenges, and we’re going to person to proceed to attraction connected them and find ways for them to proceed to beryllium capable to past during these challenging times.”