Current (March) unemployments rates in the region:
Province
NS - 9.3%
NB - 9.7%
NL - 11.6%
PE - 11.8%
CMA
St. John's - 5.2%
Halifax - 6.4%
Moncton - 6.4%
Saint John - 6.8%
For comparison the unemployment rate in Toronto is 8.0%, so the Atlantic Canadian CMA's are doing not too bad at all!
