In particular, it appears to me – based on the limited information available - that most people out of work in Canada (unemployed, for all practical purposes) are being dis-regarded as not needing jobs or wanting jobs, based on the un-qualified and un-professional use of pejorative terms like “...dropped out of the labour force...” and “...given up looking for work...” in media reports supposedly emanating from Statistics Canada.
No evidence justifying the application of these terms, as valid descriptions of the people affected, is ever produced when such reports asppear in the mass media.
I also note that the terms just mentioned, or similar ones, are not even defined in the “Guide to the Labour Force Survey” which supposedly defines all the terms and concepts involved in measuring and reporting on unemployment and underemployment, together with the concepts and definitions used by the ILO.
The only terms defined in the “Guide to the Labour Force Survey” having any possible connection with these are the terms “discouraged worker” and “discouraged searcher”.
Hence there are questions as to who is actually instigating the un-substantianted use of pejorative terms like “...given up looking for work...” and “...dropped out of the labour force...” in media reports purporting to emanate exclusively from Statistics Canada.