Mr. Chair, I can answer that question.
Canada and the U.S. both adhere to the United Nations International Labour Organization's guidance on defining and measuring labour market activity. The guidance does, however, include some flexibility so that each country can interpret and adapt it to its own labour market.
Accordingly, it's not always possible to do a country-to-country comparison of employment and other main labour market indicators. With respect to Canada and the U.S., specifically, a technical paper is available on our website to explain the conceptual differences between the two countries' surveys, the LFS and the Current Population Survey.