Labour Force Survey - January 2007

Resource citation: StatsCan The Daily

I know most of my readers probably don't read statistics reports or get excited about them. I know that stuff is for mostly for market analysts and stock speculators - and for odd people like myself who seem to take interest in such boring data. But these trends and shifts do reveal certain things - for example this result:

Ontario's unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage points in January to 6.4%, due to an estimated 32,000 additional labour force participants.
Over the past 12 months, 88,000 (+3.2%) adult women have entered Ontario's labour force, while the number of male participants has increased by just 18,000 (+0.6%).

I'll let your imagination work that through the laws of averages, but this little piece of information is revealing a disturbing trend. It's telling us something about the women of society, it's telling us something about the men of society, and it's telling us something about the families of society.

This is what a society that has spurned the primary duties of life looks like. The fact that there are more women working than should be working is obvious, but far more perilous is the evidence that there is an extreme surplus of deadbeat males.


Guys, get to work. (Unfortunately, it's not likely that many of them will read this.)