Mr. Speaker, I am fully aware of the responsibility to help create employment.
The budget presented by the Minister of Finance took a number of initiatives: Stimulating growth in the areas of high technology and small business by developing a whole new strategy for giving access to capital. Funding a major infrastructure program that will kick-start the economy. Funding a number of initiatives to deal with the unemployment problems of young people. Initiating reductions in payroll taxes so that we give further incentives to small business.
I attended the job summit held during the last two days where the seven most powerful industrial countries were looking at this problem of the 35 million people who are unemployed. The prescriptions that came out of that meeting were to stimulate
growth in our industries, to reduce payroll costs and to invest in people. Those are exactly the things this government has done.