Canada's unemployment rate rose to 6.9% in April, the highest since November, as U.S. tariffs started to hit Canada's export-dependent economy in earnest, data showed on Friday.

Canada's labour market was showing cracks in April as the early impacts of the tariff dispute with the United States started to appear in economic data.

Canadian unemployment rose to 6.9% in April, the highest level since November, as US tariffs on major exports started hitting the country’s important manufacturing and trade-dependent parts of the economy,