Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance.
We know now that unemployment in Canada is stuck at 10 per cent. Yet in Saskatchewan with a New Democrat government the unemployment rate is the lowest in the country. We know too from the government's own studies that unemployment costs the country billions and billions of dollars in lost revenues and would contribute to addressing the deficit had the problem of unemployment been addressed.
Knowing that the government of Saskatchewan has developed a partnership approach to dealing with the economy which has generated an unemployment rate that is the envy of the country, when will the Minister of Finance speak to the minister of economic diversification and development in Saskatchewan to find out how to deal with unemployment?