For those of you looking for employment like I am, here's an update:

There are ~ 42,513 ~ job listings on Canada's HRDC Job Bank at this moment and there are ~ 33,212,549 ~ people in Canada at this moment. That's 42,513 job openings from sea to shining sea.

That's slim pickins'! Good Luck! Looks like I'll be unemployed for awhile.

Newfoundland once had a make work program because of their high unemployment rate. People were given one year contracts, just long enough to qualify for unempoyment benefits in an effort to keep people off the welfare rolls. Looks like the whole country has followed in their footsteps.