Mr. Speaker, last week the Minister of Human Resources Development claimed puzzlement about Canada's high unemployment rates. He does know that they cannot be lowered by more spending and deficits. He should know that we need to lower payroll taxes and government barriers to employment like Germany did recently and like they exist in the United States where the unemployment rate is only 5.5 per cent compared to Canada's 9.5 per cent.
Will the minister use this information for better Canadian policies, or will he continue to stand by in puzzlement while over one and one-half million Canadians look for work and become increasingly cynical about yet another Liberal broken promise?