B.C.’s strong economic recovery continued during the 2nd month of 2022: Ravi Kahlon

Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon says job creation in BC in February helped nudge the province's jobless rate down two basis points to 4.9 per cent.

Kahlon says the province continues to lead the country in economic recovery with 84,000 more people working than before the pandemic, a number he says is the highest job recovery rate in Canada.

Statistics Canada data show jobless figures in Kelowna barely budged last month and are pegged at 7.1 per cent while Victoria's rate climbed three basis points to 4.2 per cent.

Unemployment in Abbotsford-Mission saw a steep drop in February, falling more than one per cent from 5.4 per cent in January to 4.2 last month while Prince George's rate was down three-tenths of a point to 3.2 per cent and Vancouver's was 5.4 per cent, three basis points under its January setting.