Thank you, Mr. Minister. You talked about your economic recovery plan. I am going to tell you honestly that it seems to me to have been designed for Ontario and western Canada.
You spoke briefly about forestry in your statement. My question will not be on that subject. Nonetheless, I would like to say this: your supposed aid to forestry is chickenfeed. This is not the way to rebuild the forestry sector. That is the message I wanted to give you about forestry, as an aside.
My question will deal with the manufacturing sector. In February alone, 11,000 jobs were lost in this sector in Quebec. Earlier, I spoke to you about the manufacturing sector overall and the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost.
Let's talk about the measures. These measures you have proposed do not meet the needs, do not create jobs. Do you not consider it urgent to implement the refundable research and development tax credit to help the manufacturing sector?