Mr. Speaker, every time we ask the government about the plight of the unemployed, people who are out of a job and who are looking for some hope, all we get is warmed over rhetoric from the previous campaign, blaming the previous governments, blaming provincial governments, blaming the private sectors, or quoting statistics to people who are actually looking for some hope and a job.
The Minister of Finance just told the member of the NDP that his assertion was nonsense. Let me quote to him what the Minister of Finance said when in opposition and there were rising interest rates. He said, and I quote—