Module 2 Post 3

For part of my final assignment I will be looking at employment and unemployment of Aboriginal people in Canada.

The below link provides information on how the Aboriginal labour market has deteriorated in Canada since 2007. The study was compiled by the Centre for the Study of living standards (CSLS) and was funded by the Metis National Council.

The study doesn’t paint the full picture as Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey was used for the analysis which excludes Aboriginal Canadians living on-reserves. However, part of what the study found was:

“In 2011, the labour market performance of Aboriginal Canadians, excluding those living on-reserve, was considerably worse than that of non-Aboriginal Canadians. The unemployment rate was 5.6 percentage points higher (12.9 per cent versus 7.3 per cent)”

For more details of the study please visit the website: http://www.csls.ca/res_reports.asp and click on the pdf titled: Labour Market Prospects for the Métis in the Canadian Mining Industry or simply click below:

http://www.csls.ca/PressReleaseJune202012.pdf

Cheers,

Greg Campbell