I want to thank the witnesses for joining us.
We know that our colleagues from across the table spend more time making up stories about us than looking into the repercussions of their own economic policies. If you are behind a $15-billion annual increase in the price of fuel, you should have the decency to refrain from laughing. Canadians who fill up pay that $15-billion amount every day.
We could also criticize this government for limiting itself to a single economic sector—that of natural resources. In terms of figures, in my riding of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, we lost another 200 jobs recently. Those are 200 workers who need wages, who were ready to work and wanted to work in the manufacturing sector, at the Paccar truck factory. They are joining the ranks of 500,000 Canadians who have lost their job in the manufacturing sector, and that explains the additional 300,000 unemployed people compared with 2008. That is incredible and unspeakable.
Mr. Schetagne, what are the economic consequences of a policy based on a single economic sector?