The labour force data is inherently erratic, which is why it makes more sense to look at a three-month centred moving average of the seasonally adjusted data. Based on such series, the unemployment rate didn’t fall from 7.0% in October to 6.8% in November then rise to 6.9% in December. It went from 7.0% in September to 6.9% in October and stayed there in November. (There is still no December estimate because the January published estimate is required to calculate the three-month centred moving average.) The smoothed unemployment rate is very modestly lower than the 7.0% smoothed rate in November 2015, a year previous, and the month the Liberals took office.