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The Windsor area has matched its record low monthly unemployment rate after February’s figure dropped 0.3 per cent to 5.1, according to numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada.

The last time the rate was this low was in 2001.

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The drop left the Windsor area tied for the sixth lowest unemployment rate in the nation.

“It’s great news for the Windsor area,” said Matt Marchand, president and CEO of the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce.

“It’s been a wonderful turnaround looking at where we were in 2008-09.”

Windsor’s unemployment rate was 15.7 per cent in July 2009 and has plummeted 10.6 per cent in just over seven years.

The national unemployment rate in February was 6.6 per cent while Ontario’s rate is 6.2 per cent.

The national figure is the lowest it has been in two years after the economy added 15,300 jobs last month.

Brantford enjoyed the lowest unemployment rate in Canada last month at 4.2 per cent.