STATSCAN: Year-over-Year Wage Growth Increases

[Jobu]

Wage growth was also strong, Statistics Canada said, an indication that those who have lost good-paying jobs in the still-ailing manufacturing sector, for example, have been able to find new jobs with comparable salaries.

Year-over-year wage growth stood at 4.6 per cent in September, well above the current rate of inflation, which is standing at 3.5 per cent.

[whowhere]

Wage growth was also strong, Statistics Canada said, an indication that those who have lost good-paying jobs in the still-ailing manufacturing sector, for example, have been able to find new jobs with comparable salaries.

Year-over-year wage growth stood at 4.6 per cent in September, well above the current rate of inflation, which is standing at 3.5 per cent.

BS, show the link.

[Smallc]

BS, show the link.

No, I believe that its quite true.

[whowhere]

No, I believe that its quite true.

Then show the link or this is nothing more than Conservative Propoganda

[Smallc]

Then show the link or this is nothing more than Conservative Propoganda

Sheesh, its all over the news.

Year-over-year wage growth stood at 4.6 per cent in September, well above the current rate of inflation, which is standing at 3.5 per cent.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news...68-9629e144c0f1

[independent]

Wage growth was also strong, Statistics Canada said, an indication that those who have lost good-paying jobs in the still-ailing manufacturing sector, for example, have been able to find new jobs with comparable salaries.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/200...991291-sun.html

You are not from Ontario are you.

[Jobu]

Then show the link or this is nothing more than Conservative Propoganda

ahahaha

[Smallc]

You are not from Ontario are you.

Its not him that said that, it was the media.

[Jerry J. Fortin]

I am a unionized employee and have not in the last 28 years received a contract that even matched the rate of inflation during the contract year it was negotiated. I cannot speak for others but I myself got a three percent raise this year.

[White Doors]

I am a unionized employee and have not in the last 28 years received a contract that even matched the rate of inflation during the contract year it was negotiated. I cannot speak for others but I myself got a three percent raise this year.

Well! Then obviously Statscan is lying!

[kengs333]

So, people in Ontario working for minimum wage got a 9.5% increase.

[Jerry J. Fortin]

Well! Then obviously Statscan is lying!

Statscan is an arm of the government that provides data with respect to the framework of a question posed. Any fool knows that statistics are a means of manipulating facts in order to produce a result of a designed nature.

Isn't this just like saying that Canada produced hundreds of thousands of jobs last month. What they don't say is how many jobs were lost with what total of lost income, and what rate of payment for what total income replaced those lost jobs. That would be a far more accurate economic picture would it not?

[Jobu]

I am a unionized employee and have not in the last 28 years received a contract that even matched the rate of inflation during the contract year it was negotiated. I cannot speak for others but I myself got a three percent raise this year.

Maybe you should ditch the outdated institution known as the union and you'd be better off.

[Smallc]

Statscan is an arm of the government that provides data with respect to the framework of a question posed. Any fool knows that statistics are a means of manipulating facts in order to produce a result of a designed nature.

There is no reason to believe that Statistics Canada is in any way being manipulated or controlled by the CPC. I think we may be reaching a bit here.

[Jerry J. Fortin]

There is no reason to believe that Statistics Canada is in any way being manipulated or controlled by the CPC. I think we may be reaching a bit here.

You are the one reaching. Show me where I said any political party was involved. I said the government.

[Cameron]

So people use StatsCan when they want to...if it was showing a loss, the L(l)iberals and NDP would be all over it pointing fingers....

Stats can has been around for years, just because the numbers don't jive with what you are getting doesn't mean they are incorrect.

[independent]

Well! Then obviously Statscan is lying!

It varies widely across the country. Wages at Maple leaf took a huge drop and they are unionized. The're are a lot of other examples of other companies where employees had to take huge cuts in pay or lose their job. In Alberta wages had to go way up because of a labour shortage.

[Jerry J. Fortin]

You folks are missing the point. StatsCan will produce the answers to the question given. The key is the question, not the answer.

[Jobu]

You folks are missing the point. StatsCan will produce the answers to the question given. The key is the question, not the answer.

Right, because these figures aren't reported every single month in the same way or anything.

Again, please do not argue points that require some level of understanding and knoweldge that you clearly do not have.

Otherwise, you come across as a frustrated, partisan hack with a clear agenda, which isn't spirited debate.

[Jerry J. Fortin]

If StatsCan put out weekly reports on a variety of key areas then it could be fully utilized as an economic tool. Unfortunately it has been used as a political tool at public expense that serves no valid purpose other than to provide a means of accumulating data to be used in a propaganda effort on the part of the government.

[Smallc]

You folks are missing the point. StatsCan will produce the answers to the question given. The key is the question, not the answer.

And the question is, how many jobs were created if any. The answer: 10 000 full time and 97 000 part time. Was wage growth up or down? By how much? It was up, by 4.6% on average. The same question is asked every month, and we get the answers every month. The same goes for the currently stable housing starts.