Mr. Speaker, as usual we heard a very positive speech from the member on the government side about how things are coming up roses right across the country. He told us about the problems on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. I think I am quoting him properly when he said that at every second door a restaurant or a retail store was closed down.
Do members remember the old slogan jobs, jobs, jobs? Yet every second business on that street in Montreal, which is a major shopping street if I am correct, is closed down and one family in four in Montreal is on government assistance.
This government is supposed to be the federal government that governs the people on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, on Jasper Avenue in Edmonton, and on Perron Street in St. Albert, which is my constituency. The member said that in order for the government to do its job it wants a truce from the Bloc Quebecois and the separatists in Quebec. Its job is to govern.
I would like to know from the hon. member from Brome-Missisquoi when the Liberal government will start governing and representing the people on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, Quebec. When will it start delivering on the old cliché of jobs, jobs, jobs that it promised to the people of Quebec, to the people of Edmonton, and to the people in my riding of St. Albert?
The government said it would deliver. It did not say give us a truce from the separatist and we will see if we can deliver. We are still waiting. When will it deliver?