Employment is always an important indicator of economic
growth and success and the figure below provides a good perspective on how some
of Ontario’s major centers are doing when it comes to job creation. Employment data from Statistics Canada
is used to compare total employment growth between 2001 and 2016 for 15 major
CMAs. These major CMAs are ranked
from highest to lowest and their employment growth ranges from a high of 38.8
percent for Oshawa to a low of -2.4 percent for Thunder Bay.
