Mr. Speaker, the political leadership of the European Union has announced that it will set job targets and establish programs to combat unemployment. Meanwhile the Liberal Government of Canada seems content to have unemployment stay at 9% and rejects NDP proposals to set targets and timetables for job creation.
Indeed last week the Bank of Canada governor said that Canada's economy could reach full capacity next year at 8.9% unemployment. It seems that the Liberals and the Bank of Canada regard 1.5 million unemployed Canadians as redundant, as effectively non-participants in the economy.
This is a shameful approach. It should be replaced with a commitment to real jobs for real people instead of this idolatrous fascination for certain economic indicators and the false economic theories that they are a part of.