text: Younglai writes “the unemployment rate has remained close to the level seen before the [so-called] Great Recession.” (The 1981-82 recession under Trudeau père was much worse than the 2008-09 recession.)  This isn’t really so. Between October 2006 and August 2008, the unemployment rate ranged between 5.8% and 6.1% except for three months when it was 6.2%; the unemployment rate has never been under 6.2% under Trudeau fils, and except for August and September, it has never been as low as 6.2%. Real AHE were only up about 0.9% from October 2016 to October 2017, and the annualized rate of growth of real AHE from October 2015 to October 2017 is only 0.6%.