Canada finished 2017 with the lowest unemployment rate in more than 40 years.

The national rate fell to 5.7 per cent in December according to Stats Can…down from 5.9 per cent the month before and lowest since 1976.

Locally the unemployment rate went up for the third straight month at 6.7 per cent.

It’s still way down from 8.4 in December of 2016.