Mr. Speaker, 24,000 more Canadians are out of work since September. Twenty-four thousand more families are wondering how they will pay for their groceries, how they will pay their rent and how they will get through Christmas.
When will the government admit that it is not getting things right, that unemployment is a continuing problem which its policies are not addressing, and that it needs to do something different? Will the government please explain why we have had a continuous 9% rate of unemployment for 85 months now?