British Columbia is a ruggedly beautiful province, where you'll find a lot more green in mountains and valleys than you will in people's pockets.

Statistics Canada's year-end employment review shows the country added 153,700 net new part-time jobs last year and just 60,400 full-time positions - a number so low it was statistically insignificant.

2016 marked Canada's seventh straight year of solid employment gains. But there's not much to be proud about in last year's jobs numbers.