The B.C. government is taking credit for positive job numbers in the province and says the controversial harmonized sales tax will create even more jobs.
Statistics Canada says B.C.'s jobless rate was unchanged at 7.8 per cent last month and 24,800 new full time jobs were created, most of them in manufacturing.
Small Business and Economic Development Minister Iain Black is crediting the positive numbers to the Liberal government's tax cuts, stimulus package and efforts to diversify the economy.
He says those measures will help pull B.C. out of the recession faster than any other place in North America.
Black also says the HST will boost employment even more when it takes effect next summer because it will reduce business costs by changing what's now an inefficient tax system.
While Black was promoting the HST, four New Democrats MLA's were out on the streets of Surrey to rally commuters against the tax.
