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The share of unemployed millennial basement-dwellers in Canada is on the rise.

In November 2014, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz drew attention to this unwelcome legacy of the financial crisis: the enduring presence of young Canadians unable to start their careers and move out of their parents’ homes.

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“I bet almost everyone in this room knows at least one family with adult children living in the basement,” the governor said in a Toronto speech. “I’m pretty sure these kids have not taken early retirement.”

According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch North America Economist Emanuella Enenajor, “The basement has gotten a little more crowded.”

The employment rate for Canadians between the ages of 15 and 24 has retreated to 55.2 per cent as of June from 56.1 per cent when Poloz flagged this problem.