The unemployment rate has hit a record high of 13.7 percent.
This is the highest the jobless rate has been since 1982.
The economy added 289,600 jobs in May as businesses started to reopen.
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The agency says the increase in the unemployment rate is a result of more people looking for work, particularly people who have worked in the past year.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March over 3-million Canadian jobs have been lost.
The unemployment rate pre-pandemic in February was 5.6-percent.
