NDP REALITY CHECK: NDP has the best record on creating and protecting jobs while in government

Not only are NDP governments the best fiscal managers, according to Finance Canada statistics, the evidence shows that New Democrat governments also do the best when it comes to tackling unemployment.

We crunched the data from Statistics Canada to determine which political party had the best record, between 1980 to 2013, when it comes to unemployment.

AVERAGE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BY PARTY IN POWER

Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey

NDP

7.1

Conservative

9.3

Liberal

10.7

PQ

10.8

Social Credit

10.9

While Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are taking billions away from hard-working families and giving it to the wealthy few who don’t need it through their income splitting scheme, Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats are offering practical solutions and principled leadership.

This is why the NDP has the best record on balanced budgets and the best record for creating and protecting jobs.