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More people are working in the City of Toronto, and the mayor wants the credit.

“I was elected on a promise to create jobs, and that’s exactly what I’ve done,” Rob Ford told journalists gathered in the mayor’s protocol lounge at City Hall at lunchtime on Thursday.

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“When I took office, day after day our city was losing business to our competitors. In 2010 I promised to create jobs and tackle our unemployment rate.”

I was elected on a promise to create jobs, and that’s exactly what I’ve done

The city put out a news release saying that according to Statistics Canada, “the City of Toronto’s unemployment rate has dropped nearly 3% in one year (from 10% in August 2012 to 7.1% in August 2013).” In fact, StatsCan said that it provides “seasonally adjusted” employment numbers only for Toronto’s Census Metropolitan Area, (i.e. the Toronto region). The City of Toronto seasonally adjusts the numbers in-house, Michael Williams, general manager of economic development, later clarified.