Unemployment Rates

unemployment: In 2012, the Conservative government made deep cuts to the employment insurance EI program. The cuts were meant to encourage workers in high unemployment regions to relocate to low unemployment regions, like Alberta. Now, having heeded the call for mobility, workers will return home to stubbornly high unemployment rates and a hollowed-out EI program, according to Rabble. The rise of this mobile workforce has paralleled Canada bitumen explosion. The number of inter-provincial workers in Alberta -- those working in Alberta and living in another province -- surpassed the number of in-migrants in 2005. Between 2004 and 2009, Alberta interprovincial workforce doubled from roughly 65,000 to 128,000 and As oil prices drop, rumours in the Maritimes are on the rise: the region migrant workers, who send money home from their jobs "out west," might be coming home for good. Welcome to Harper flexibility fanaticism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.