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An employee works on the production line at the Martinrea auto parts manufacturing plant in Woodbridge, Ont., in February.

For two months Canada’s most closely watched survey of the job market has reassuringly signalled that a rebound in manufacturing employment is under way.

Actual employer payrolls suggest that growth was an illusion.

In September, Canada’s manufacturing sector shed more than 9,500 jobs from the month before, the ninth straight monthly decline this year, according to Statistics Canada’s survey of employment, payrolls and hours, released Thursday.

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It’s a stark contrast from the agency’s labour force survey (LFS), which polls households about their employment status and is more current.

In October, employment in the

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