usually unemployment is 11 to 13%.
Welcome to Quebec!
Yeah, Stephen Harper's doing a bang up job. 
I am now pretty confident he cheated on his exams when he became an "economist"
Anyways, it's 4.2% in Ottawa metro area (Ontario part), up 0.1% from January 2008. It's low because Ottawa is a overwhelmingly public sector/government jobs city.
It's 5.0% in the Quebec part of the Ottawa metro area (aka Gatineau), up 0.9% from one year ago.
Overall, for the interprovincial metro area, it's 4.4% (+0.3%).
Unemployment in Montreal is up to 8.1% (+0.9%).
In the Saint-Malo zone d'emploi, which is a special statistical unit for employment stats and stuff in France (so, it's not just the city itself but all the Saint-Malo agglomeration in Ille-et-Vilaine and even Dol de Bretagne) it was 6.4% in the 3rd quarter of 2008. I'm quite surprised that the unemployment rate in the Rennes zone is actually lower than in Saint-Malo. But they make up these stats anyways...
I really wasn't too interested in figures. I was simply making light of the stereotype that the Quebecois have, shall we say, a lax attitude toward the value of employment.
