Unemployment rises to 8.7% in Canada despite the creation of jobs in August

The Canadian economy created 27,100 jobs in August, but despite this the unemployment rate rose to 8.7 percent by the increase in job seekers, said government agency Statistics Canada (EC).

In July, unemployment was located at 8.6 percent.
Although job creation is good news for Canada, EC noted that all new jobs were part time, a category that is seen by economists as less positive in terms of economic health, that full time jobs .

EC said that since the number of people employed in Canada reached its highest point in October 2008, the number of workers has fallen by 387,000 persons, 2.3 per cent of the country.

But in the past five months, the job loss has been limited to 31,000 jobs, a much slower rate than that experienced during the five months following October 2008, which may mark the beginning of the end of the recession in Canada.

From this month, the number of full-time jobs destroyed 486,000 sum. In the same period, the number of part-time jobs increased by 99,000.

The Canadian figures contrast with the U.S., the country's main trading partner, also announced today that unemployment rose in August to 9.7 percent with the disappearance of 216,000 jobs.