What's interesting is that we can go back to, say, July or August 2008, prior to the 2008 recession. The key factor is the percentage of working-age adults with a full-time job. That percentage has dropped from about 52% to around 50%. This shows that while the unemployment rate has come down, what's made up the difference is not full-time jobs but part-time jobs. The unemployment rate is definitely lower. The problem is that people are working in part-time environments.
There is another challenge that StatsCan doesn't collect the data for. They may well be working in part-time jobs, but they would like full-time jobs. That data isn't collected. It's clear that the number of Canadians eligible to work in a full-time job is much less today than it was in 2008.