Statistics Canada and Kijiji

Kijiji: Ministers were peppered with questions Wednesday from opposition MPs who ridiculed the government for choosing to rely on data based on an outside software program that searches for online job ads including on Kijiji rather than reports from Statistics Canada. Those reports say surveys of employers show job vacancies are declining, not rising. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Opinion Finance spins a skills-mismatch fairy tale The Conservative government is defending its use of Kijiji to support its claims of a growing skills shortage in Canada, even though the Parliamentary Budget Officer says the websites wonky job data are throwing off the governments math. How Kijijias data threw off Ottawas math on skills shortages (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.