I'm seeing the claim that Victoria is at its "highest ever" level of unemployment.

It struck me as wrong so I went back to the 1931 census and took at look: unemployment in 1931 in Victoria was over 22% or just about double what it is today. https://twitter.com/CTVNewsVI/status/1282770146612973573

So @CTVNewsVI and @VictoriaNews you should probably issue some corrections to the highly misleading stories that you're running with.

And I know it's tough to do employment data reporting over a long time horizon. @StatCan_eng really should make this kind of data accessible.

But they don't so if you want to make a highest or lowest ever claim, it's probably not a bad idea to ring up one of the handful of local economic historians to at least given you a gut check on whether what you want to claim is right.

What would the gut check here have been here? BC was arguably the hardest hit area of Canada during the Great Depression with nearly 1 in 3 people being out of work. COVID has been a tremendous shock, but hasn't mirrored that scale of unemployment.

Continuing this thread given more Great Depression forgetfulness in reference to today's fiscal release.

Are we facing a huge fiscal hit? Yes! But we aren't close to the dire fiscal position facing the provinces in the 1930s. https://twitter.com/LeyneLes/status/1283114648657485824