They would probably report as self-employed, although unemployed is possible.
Unemployment in government statistics is an economic-political term basically defined as "people who are able to work, who are actively looking for work and have been for the last 4 weeks"
Its important that they are "actively" searching for work. This is generally (in most countries, including Canada and the United States) defined the same as it is in the relevant welfare codes: looking at job ads, submitting resumes, making physical effort to find a new job (albeit, the extent to which that effort is made is hard to measure)
Unemployment in government statistics is an economic-political term basically defined as "people who are able to work, who are actively looking for work and have been for the last 4 weeks"
Its important that they are "actively" searching for work. This is generally (in most countries, including Canada and the United States) defined the same as it is in the relevant welfare codes: looking at job ads, submitting resumes, making physical effort to find a new job (albeit, the extent to which that effort is made is hard to measure)