Canada added a solid 44,000 net new jobs in October, but the quality of those jobs will likely have experts worried about the state of the labour market.

Virtually all the job growth in Canada over the past year has been in part-time work. The number of part-time jobs has increased by 124,000, or 3.6 per cent, over the past year, while the number of full-time jobs has increased by a mere 15,500.

In October, the country added 67,000 part-time jobs while losing 23,000 full-time jobs, StatsCan data shows.

The unemployment rate stayed steady at 7 per cent, as more people entered the workforce to look for a job.