Mr. Speaker, the hon. member should look at the statistics again.
Since the government came to power over 500,000 new jobs have been created. They are permanent jobs and they are in the private sector.
There was a problem last year. The world economy did slow and there was less job creation than we wanted. However, as I mentioned earlier to the leader of the Reform Party, in the last three months we have seen a strong growth in job creation, and the budget will ensure that continues.