Mr. Speaker, when it comes to jobs, the statements of the government certainly do ring hollow.
The government's budget actually predicts that we will have a higher unemployment rate in 2010 than we had last year. Half a million people lost their jobs in the recession, 1.6 million people are out of work and 800,000 people stand to run out of their EI premiums and have nothing to support their families, yet we have the same old policies that have not worked.
Where is the plan to create jobs for Canadians so we can get the economy going for them?