I'll jump in on this one.
I wrote what you could call a high-spirited op-ed in the Financial Post yesterday on the CIBC jobs report. First of all, part-time and self-employment peaked 20 years ago. It's been a declining share of employment over time. So the idea that jobs are shifting into this precarious labour force, no, it doesn't work. This index is not something Statistics Canada would ever produce. Conceptually it's a very weak index.