June 12, 2019 – Quebec has the highest job vacancy rate of
any Canadian province at 4.1 per cent, a new report reveals.
The French-speaking province's 120,800 vacancies at the end
of the first quarter of 2019 contributed a total of 435,000
unfilled positions, according to the Canadian Federation of
Independent Business (CFIB)'s latest Help Wanted report.
Quebec's vacancy rate is 0.8 percentage points above the
national average, and 0.5 percentage points above any other
province.
The figures lay bare the difficulty employers have in finding
staff in Canada's second most populous province.
Although Ontario has more vacancies, at 174,800, its greater
population means a vacancy rate of 3.3 per cent, equal to the
national average.
