39% of unemployed Canadians have given up looking for jobs, completely

And, it's not getting any better.  But wait ... there's solution to the problem.  Harper knows how to bring back jobs by imposing more sanctions on Russia. Glory be!  What a smart man!

From CBC:
.....Almost four out of 10 Canadians   who don't have a job have completely given up hope of ever finding one, a new survey suggests.

In a poll carried out by Harris Poll and published Friday by employment agency Express Employment Professionals, the company surveyed 1,502 unemployed Canadians. None of them had a job, and not all of them were receiving EI benefits.

The results were eye-opening.

Some 39 per cent of those polled were in agreement with the statement that "I've completely given up on looking for a job" with five per cent saying they "agree a lot" 11 per cent saying they "agree somewhat" and 17 per cent saying they "agree a little."

In the poll, which saw people respond to questions online over a week in April, more than a third responded they hadn't had a job interview in over a month. A full 13 per cent of respondents said they hadn't had a job interview since 2012 or before — well over a calendar year ago.

"The results of this survey should serve as a wake-up call to policymakers that some unemployed Canadians are falling behind," Express CEO Bob Funk said. "If left unchecked, they could fall into a trap of prolonged unemployment and risk being left out of the workforce entirely."

With numbers like that, it's not hard to detect the bleakness emanating from employment centres across the country.

"I'm not even going to look for a job anymore, because I've been searching for six months and nothing is happening," says Shirlon Marshall, an unemployed short order cook looking for a job at a Toronto-area job centre..............