Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin by saying to the member for Rosemont that I too share his view that the obsession with ratcheting inflation down to zero per cent during the last four years for all intents and purposes killed the economy of this country. It broke the entrepreneurial spirit of thousands of small and medium size business men and women, which ultimately led to unemployment numbers that we are still fighting to cope with and put people back to work.
My concern is the fact that the member did not put forward some specific recommendations on how we can fire up that economy again. I realize that the member talked about excessive numbers of public servants when we have done some downsizing in energy and other departments of government. The cost by having those public servants working or the savings that would have been made is not enough to really get this economy going again.
I wonder if the member would put a couple of specific recommendations on the floor of this House on how we could fire up this economy and get people back to work. As I have said, it is important to have fiscal discipline in this country but my concern is that we are not spending enough creative time in dealing with constructive ways, creative ways on how we put the 2.2 million people who are unemployed in this country back to work.
Could the member put a couple of specific ideas on the floor of the House?