A graph of the unemployment rate for Canada over the twentieth century shows:
A) a consistent upward trend in the unemployment rate.
B) an overall downward trend in the unemployment rate interrupted by a large upturn in the 1930s.
C) rates of unemployment always greater than zero,with substantial variations from year to year.
D) alternating periods of positive and negative rates of unemployment.

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The unemployment rate in Canada, like in most countries, has always been greater than zero, with fluctuations due to economic cycles, policy changes, and other factors. The Great Depression in the 1930s caused a significant spike, but unemployment rates have varied over the century without a consistent upward or downward trend.

A Graph of the Unemployment Rate for Canada Over the Twentieth