Mr. Speaker, let us take a look at some examples. While the government was downsizing the fish processing industry, it spent $2.2 million to upgrade a fish plant. This caused a neighbouring fish plant to close down. The 250 jobs that were created were stolen from the other fish plant. The second one closed down in 1994, yet somehow these 250 jobs that disappeared entirely showed up as job creation.
Will the minister tell us on what basis jobs stolen, jobs lost, jobs eliminated and money wasted will count as jobs created?