Mr. Speaker, I publicly thank the member for Outremont for the excellent job he did during the parliamentary committee hearings on social security review.
In the Montreal area the economy is making substantial gains. Between January 1994 and January 1995 the number of jobs in Montreal increased by 47,000. The number of unemployed workers decreased by 18,000. The unemployment rate is down by 1.3 per cent.
The red book promises are working very well in Montreal.