Mr. Speaker, the fact that the economy has produced 114,000 new jobs in the last two months is a sign that we are on the right track.
We are not satisfied with that. We know that when we started unemployment was 11.6 per cent. We want to reduce it. We want to create jobs. This is the program of this government. This is the goal of this government.
The infrastructure programs will start to produce jobs in the coming weeks because the agreement has been signed with everybody. We are very hopeful that it will continue creating more jobs, that there will be more jobs in the ridings of every member of Parliament because of the program.
Of course the rest of the economy will produce other private sector jobs. We are on the right track. We should not lose our cool because there are some fluctuations in the market. I have been Minister of Finance before and I have learned that it is serving-