Mr. Speaker, when it comes to supporting Canadian jobs and economic growth, our Conservative government is on the right track.
Last week, Statistics Canada announced that the Canadian economy grew 2.7% in the third quarter in 2013, the ninth consecutive quarter of economic growth for Canada. What is more, today we learn that almost 22,000 new jobs, largely in the private sector, were created in the month of November. With over one million net new jobs created since the depth of the global economic recession, Canada has the best job growth record in the G7.
However, despite this positive news, the global economy remains fragile and too many Canadians are still out of work. That is why our Conservative government remains focused on the economy and job creation.
This is in sharp contrast to the NDP, which wants to introduce a $20 billion carbon tax and impose a crippling tax hike on the job creators or the Liberals, whose leader has no plan for the economy.