Thanks, Mr. Chair.
My questions, to start, will be for Statistics Canada.
As noted in the opening, we continue to see strong economic growth across the country in all provinces and territories. The recent labour force survey noted that we gained approximately 337,000 jobs, dropping our unemployment rate to 5.5%. As I think Ms. Bégin noted in her opening, it's much lower than the prepandemic numbers from 2020, where the rate was 5.7%.
Can you verify the numbers as they relate to the unemployment rate? Can you provide us a snapshot of where we've made gains, and in what sectors? How do our numbers compare to our neighbours south of the border?