Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance is providing the very same answer as his Conservative predecessors, and he is implementing exactly the same monetary policy. The minister kept tearing up his shirts when the Conservatives applied the medicine which he is now pouring down Canadians' throats.
Does the minister realize that, by supporting a policy which is only geared to fight inflation, he is deliberately hurting job creation, and, consequently, he accepts unemployment rates of 9.5 per cent in Canada and close to 12 per cent in Quebec, where 417,000 people are without work?