Northwestern Ontario keeps getting the rules while the jobs stay south

Thunder Bay held an unemployment rate of 4.7 per cent in August, in a month when the country shed 42,000 jobs. Read on its own that is a good number. Read against the last twenty years of Northwestern Ontario employment, it is the same story the region always tells: the labour market here is small enough that a single employer moving in or out is the whole statistic, and the decisions that create those employers are almost never made here.
That pattern is worth keeping in mind whenever the provi