It seems that the same software program that the committee clerks have been using, is also available to the committee lawyers and to the committee chairpersons, who just happen to be all Liberals. It doesn't take genius to find out what's been happening. So now they'll need a new software program so that amendments filed by the Opposition MPs aren't accessible to anyone but the committee clerks. And the Bloc owes a groveling apology to Speaker Gib Parent. For years Canadians have believed without questioning that unemployment is a whole lot lower in the United States, something like almost half the Canadian rate, year after year.
Some people even move to the U.S. on that basis.
Now comes evidence from a University of Massachusetts professor Henry Brill that maybe it just ain't so. It has to do with numbers. Brill made a comparison between the two countries. In the U.S. the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects the figures. In Canada, Statistics Canada gathers the numbers.