Heading into the last weekend before the provincial election, the latest numbers show more jobs have been created in British Columbia, but they're not coming from resource-based industries.
The unemployment rate dropped to 6.4% in April from 7% in March.
Vincent Ferrao --an analyst with Stats Canada-- says that translates into about 10,000 more people finding work.
He says, "the increase was mostly in full-time work. a lot of that was in services --finance, insurance and leasing. Also, health care and social assistance and there were smaller increases elsewhere."
He says there wasn't much change in natural resource-based jobs.. with about 48-thousand people working in those industries.
B-C now has the fourth lowest unemployment rate in Canada... behind Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.
Saying she won't settle for anything less than first place in Canada, Premier Christy Clark is promising more job creation by boosting trade with Asia.
Speaking on a rooftop at the Vancouver Port, Clark says she's pleased the province's unemployment rate has improved,
but adds, "I want us to be number 1. Uunemployment went down again but we have to keep working to push that unemployment rate down even further. We need to keep pushing the numbers of jobs up. We have a plan, and it's working."
As for NDP claims bc's actually lost close to 11-thousand private sector jobs, Clark says the New Democrats have their own way of doing math.
NDP Finance Critic Bruce Ralston says the number of lost jobs in the private sector proves the Liberal Jobs Plan is an abject failure.
And he says the unemployment rate went down because more people have given up looking for a job.