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• From 2006 to 2008, 73.4% of Canada's working age population was employed, compared with 66.5% across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
• In 2008, 7.1% of unemployed people were unemployed for 12 months or more in Canada, compared with 10.6% in the United States and 25.9% across the OECD.

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