July's surprisingly large 30,400 decline in employment, following two months of paltry gains, is a bad start to the second half of this year. Admittedly, the underlying details were better than the disastrous headline figure. All things considered though, this jobs report provides further support to our long-held view that the Bank of Canada may eventually be forced to cut interest rates.
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