Welcome, Finance Minister.
Minister, our record for the last two and a half years speaks for itself, and I would say it's a great record. As you said, we have the lowest unemployment rate in 40 years; hundreds of thousands of new jobs have been created; and the Canada child benefit is lifting literally tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. In my riding of Vaughan—Woodbridge, it delivered $60 million of funds to families that needed it. Thank you for indexing the Canada child benefit and doing it two years ahead of schedule, because that's going to continue to benefit families in my riding, and they can use that to pay for their kids' sports activities, save for their kids' future, and maybe pay for some hockey, soccer, or ballet lessons.
In the riding that I'm blessed and privileged to represent, we're blessed with a number of what I would call barometers. We have the busiest intermodal facility in the country—the Canada Pacific intermodal facility. CN rail has its largest facility in the country there. Recently the Prime Minister joined UPS Canada in the announcement of their $500 million investment, and that facility is located in the city of Vaughan. The Home Depot distribution centre for all of eastern Canada is located there. We also have Martinrea and Magna in the York region. We want to continue to make sure that our investment competitiveness is maintained, and that these companies that are making these announcements, including UPS, continue to choose Canada, as many companies are, to invest in with their people and organizations.
I want to hear your thoughts—and I can bring back these thoughts to the riding and constituents that I represent—about how we're going to continue maintaining Canada's attractiveness to international companies and domestic companies, of course, to invest.