Don't believe the statistics. The scale of Canadian ecomony is much smaller than that of USA. As far as I know, the job market in Canada is much slower than in USA. Statistics is useful in politics. Essentially, it is lies, lies, and lies. The rough competetion in the IT job market won't change in accordance with those statistical figures. Put it in another way: If the umemployment rate is %0.5 and I fall into this number, the good economy has nothing to do with me. We had better not base our lives upon probability.