A young employee works at Cheese Magic in Toronto's Kensington Market in 2023. Canada's surprise surge in employment in November came from a surge in part-time work.

Canadian employment surged in November for the third consecutive month as youth picked up tens of thousands of positions, with the results easily outperforming tepid predictions from economists.

The country’s unemployment rate fell to 6.5 per cent in November from 6.9 per cent in October, Statistics Canada reported Friday in its Labour Force Survey. The decrease was fuelled by growth in part-time jobs, and a corresponding decline in the youth unemployment rate, which reached a four-year peak in September of this year.

Over all, the economy added 54,000 jobs in November, bringing the cumulative increase in jobs for September

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