Madam Chair, I have no questions for our witnesses, but I would like to make a comment.
I am stunned. We have a recovery plan that has cost us millions of dollars to promote. Money has been spent on advertising. We are being told that this recovery plan will have created, in total, between 190,000 and 220,000 jobs, but no one can assure us that this is in fact the case. We are working with macro-models. I just do not get it.
This afternoon, I asked Minister Vic Toews how much money had been spent promoting this famous recovery plan, which is also being used to promote the current Conservative government. But he could not give me any figures.
I appreciate your frankness, sir, but I was expecting you to provide us with numbers. Unfortunately, once again our questions remain unanswered. Hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money will have been spent. In my view, this is terrible. I cannot wait to get out of this Canada!
Thank you, Madam Chair.