WATCH: Pierre Poilievre says Trudeau’s failure on vaccines has led to ‘massive human tragedy’

"What we have today is not a Statistics Canada report; we have a massive human tragedy," said Poilievre, citing the 220,000 Canadian jobs lost in January, according to the labour survey.

"These people have no idea how they're going to put food on the table, and the prime minister expects them just to put it all on their credit cards."

Statistics Canada showed that employment among every group of the labour force fell, and that employment rates had not been so low since August of 2020.

Poilievre also compared Canada's performance to our G7 allies, saying: "south of the border 50,000 more people got jobs. Around the world, people are going back to work."

Countries such as the UK, the US, Germany, and Japan have "significantly" lower unemployment than Canada does.

"Our unemployment is higher than the G7 average, the average for advanced countries, and we now have among the biggest gap in the unemployment rate between the US and Canada ever," said Poilievre.

"Foreign economies have to live under COVID, but here in Canada, we have to live under Justin Trudeau, who has the worst vaccine record in the G7, by far."

job losses in the province were concentrated mainly in Canada's two largest provinces by population, Ontario and Quebec.

"The decline was highly concentrated in Central Canada, with losses in Ontario and Quebec totaling 251,000. Employment also fell in Newfoundland and Labrador.

"Employment rose in Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and held steady in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick," the survey states.

Youth employment also fell by nearly twice as much as the average worker, with 74,000 workers aged 15 to 19 losing their jobs compared to 34,000 in the 20 to 24 range.