The numbers that we are looking at, Mr. Speaker, are 1.4 million unemployed and 2.5 million under employed. That is the statistic he ought to look at.
Perhaps it is just as well that the minister did not answer my question about tax relief because who would believe anything the government said on that subject. Why would Canadians believe that the Liberals had any intention of leaving more money in the hands of taxpayers when they deliberately broke their promise to scrap, abolish and kill the GST?
The government has lost its believability on the subject of tax reform and that diminishes the stimulative effect that promised tax reform could have.
What is the hope for tax relief that will stimulate consumer and business confidence when the government has broken its one and only major promise on tax reform?