Mr. Speaker, the poor member really has got himself wound up into the wildest coil of exaggeration I have seen in a long time.
As the member well knows and as he obviously should know, the reality is that since this government has come to power we have created close to 500,000 permanent jobs. The unemployment rate has gone down from over 11 per cent to 9.4 per cent. In Quebec alone, 119,000 new jobs have been created.
As we all know, one of the most important elements of this program is that in addition to helping people adjust to the labour market, buying the opportunity to get the kind of skills they need, they will also be able to generate between 100,000 and 150,000 new incremental jobs, of which 40,000 would be in the province of Quebec. It is worth fighting for 40,000 jobs, which is what we are doing. I wish the hon. member would join in that fight.