You can understand our concern, as a group of members of Parliament who will be putting forward recommendations, that when you look at what has traditionally been the heart and soul of the middle class in Canada, those manufacturing jobs, it's not a reclassification, but we've lost a fair chunk. I understand it's not uniform across the manufacturing sectors. Forestry, say, has taken a disproportionate hit over some of the others.
That's a staggering amount of jobs losses, considering the growth of the population over that time. If we had just stayed level, we would have increased manufacturing jobs in Canada proportionately. So it's not just 700,000; it's despite the population and, as you say, the production growing, and the general wealth of the country also growing.
To Mr. Mueller, in terms of the introduction and then cancelling, and then the reintroduction and then cancelling of the home retrofit program, what does that do to the industry, the small and medium businesses that were involved and engaged with Canadians around the home retrofit program? What was the impact on that industry?