Examples of some relatively rare reports - indicating to some degree what is really
going on - include the “Ottawa’s Hidden Workforce” report of Fall 1998 and the
March 2006 Statistics Canada report, “Work Hours Instability in Canada”.
These have been referred to
under a previous section, “2.3.
Popular disinformation and myths about people out of work in Canada.”
Yet the monthly Labour Force Survey reports almost
always focus exclusively on the so-called “official unemployed”. This has been
leading to popular but warped impressions – for consumption by everybody -
being created in the mainstream mass media about the performance of the
economy, such that it has been continually made to appear to be performing far
better than was ever actually the case.
Hence there has been an extremely dangerous and
totally unacceptable neglect by government, the business community, the media
and everybody else concerning the economic development actually needed to
ensure full employment in Canada.
BThis has been going on for at least the last 30
years; the much-publicised financial “crash” from about late 2008 onwards
(connected with the U.S. subprime mortgage mess, and the associated real estate
speculation) has simply served to severely aggravate a situation that was
already bad.
But too many people in government, business and
politics were wilfully ignoring it.