Mr. Speaker, the member seems to have a set of statistics which may well have been written by Lewis Carroll but they certainly have very little relationship to reality.
In the last three months we have created 115,000 jobs, the help wanted index is up by 2 per cent in both April and March, an increase of .7 per cent in the leading indicator, consumer and business confidence is up more than 13 per cent in the first quarter, housing starts are up 5.9 per cent in April, retail sales are up .9 per cent.
The International Monetary Fund has said that next year in terms of employment, productivity, growth and confidence Canada is going to be either first or second of all the G-7 nations and I will take the IMF.