Mr. Speaker, once again, total confusion prevails in the separatist camp. The Quebec Premier has made more contradictory statements.
Last March, he told us that, since September, 58,000 jobs, or 78 per cent of all new jobs in Canada, had been created in Quebec. However, on May Day, he boasted about the 43,000 new jobs created in Quebec since September, a number equal to half of all jobs created in Canada.
Either Mr. Parizeau does not know how to count or else he is very proud to tell us that Quebec has lost 15,000 jobs in less than two months. What good news for the 800,000 welfare recipients in Montreal and elsewhere.
No wonder the Bloc Quebecois and the PQ are once again looking for a scapegoat in Ottawa.