The most current official unemployment rate is 6.6% for February 2017. January 2017 had a 6.8% unemployment rate. Also, a lot of people think that the official unemployment rate is too low, and isn’t properly sensitive to slack labour markets. Look, for example, at the attached article by McEwen et al:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/canadas-unemployment-numbers-understate-labour-underutilization/article15808961/
It is a difficult call saying how one should construct the headline unemployment rate and reasonable, well-informed people are always going to disagree about what is appropriate. Nothing is accomplished by impugning the motives of John Meyer for arguing the current US headline measure is not the best. He isn’t talking about the Canadian headline measure, although I doubt that he cares for it much either.