Montreal's unemployment rate hits lowest level in a decade

Montreal’s unemployment rate reached its lowest level in over a decade in July, Statistics Canada said on Friday.
The unemployment rate was 6.1 per cent in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area on a single-month basis, down from 6.6 per cent in June and 7.8 per cent in July 2016.
“There have been 124,000 jobs created in Quebec over the past 12 months, 115,000 of that 124,000 have been in the Greater Montreal region,” said Stéfane Marion, National Bank’s c