Mr. Speaker, this government's performance on job creation is deplorable. This morning, Statistics Canada announced that 44,000 jobs were lost in
November. Employment has remained practically at a standstill in Canada for the past twelve months. Although jobs are the main focus of the government's program, it has failed utterly to do anything about the labour market situation.
Since the Liberals came to power, the unemployed have been asked to make big sacrifices. The government said that its objective was to put people back to work. There again, it has failed. The Minister of Human Resources Development will table his second set of unemployment insurance reforms today. Like last time, he will say they are intended to give Canadians the dignity of work. However, the figures are there to tell us that the job done on unemployment insurance will not create jobs. The minister is not giving Canadians the dignity of work. He is taking it away from the unemployed.