XPost: bc.politics, can.politics, ont.politics   
   From: none@present.com   
      
   > "Alan Baker"  wrote in message news:lbeuqn$qdr$6@news.datemas.de...   
      
   > On 2014-01-18 22:00:33 +0000, ConɀƦConɀ said:   
      
   > > Try again, and post the unemployment numbers for Ontario for the same   
   > > period.  That would be under Mike Harris, the right wing equivalent of   
   > > the grim reaper.   
      
   > Would the Ontario figures change the BC ones?   
      
   No, but for the record, annual unemployment rates for Ontario and BC.   
      
   Year  Ont  BC   
      
   1994  9.6  9.1   
   1995  8.7  8.5   
   1996  9.0  8.7   
   1997  8.4  8.5   
   1998  7.2  8.8   
   1999  6.3  8.3   
   2000  5.7  7.2   
   2001  6.3  7.7   
   2002  7.2  8.5   
   2003  6.9  8.0   
      
   http://www.stats.gov.nl.ca/statistics/Labour/PDF/UnempRate.pdf   
      
   Note that Harris took over from Bob Rae in mid 1995, and left in early 2002.   
      
   During Harris's full years in power, unemployment averaged more than 1 full   
   percentage point lower in Ontario than in BC.   
      
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