Member Statement (14 March 2022)

From Hansard (14 March 2022)

 

Latest Jobs Numbers Show Strong Performance in Saskatchewan

Mr. Jenson: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The latest jobs report was released by Statistics Canada on Friday and, once again, Saskatchewan had one of the strongest job creation records in the country. In the past year, there were more than 30,000 new jobs created in Saskatchewan — 30,000 new jobs, Mr. Speaker. And that’s more than three jobs per hour, every hour, every day for the past 365 days.

Our unemployment rate fell to 4.7 per cent, the second lowest in Canada. And over the first two months of 2022, we had the second-best rate of job growth. In February in Saskatchewan, there were more women working. There were more young people working; more First Nations and Métis people working; more people working in Regina; more people working in Saskatoon; more people working in agriculture, construction, trades, and more in education and in health care and IT [information technology]; more people working in the public sector and more people working in the private sector.

Mr. Speaker, I have no doubt we are about to hear another question period where the NDP [New Democratic Party] tell us how terrible everything is in Saskatchewan. The good news is Saskatchewan people aren’t listening to the NDP’s gloom and doom. They’re too busy working, creating jobs, growing our economy, and building a better Saskatchewan. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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