Job numbers from October are out despite the province being back at the number one spot for lowest unemployment, the Liberal Jobs Critic wasn’t too optimistic about what’s around the corner.

Jordan Sturdy tells NL New he feels there are “clouds on the global horizon.”

Minister for Jobs Bruce Ralston says he understands where Sturdy is coming from. “We are taking steps that we can to ensure economic success and prosperity for everyone in every corner of the province and the results here, I think, speak to that.”

“I don’t disagree with him that there are challenges but having been an opposition critic I know that’s your job is to sometimes point these things out.”

Ralston says he doesn’t take Sturdy’s comments personally. “I’m mean that’s his job, he’s paid to throw rocks at the government but the economy is doing well. In Kamloops in particular, given the range of activities whether it’s in technology, whether it’s in manufacturing, construction.”

As far as Sturdy’s comment about “clouds on the global horizon”, “Well I don’t disagree that there are international and global pressures on the economy that over which the provincial government doesn’t have control.”