Inconvenient numbers bust government's fiscal update spin

The Conservative government is up to its old tricks: using selective statistics and incomplete numbers to talk up its economic and fiscal record.
Check out how these key lines in the annual Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections, released Tuesday, don't really hold up.

Exhibit 1: Canada's job creation numbers

"Over 1 million more Canadians are working today than at the time of the trough in employment in July 2009. These new jobs are overwhelmingly full-time positions in the private sector, with the majority in high-wage industries."

Nice try – boasting about job creation since the depths of the recession. But how about looking at the Conservative record since the beginning of the recession in September 2008 – instead of from the extreme low point – to judge how well we are doing?

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