Mr. Speaker, why does the minister not tell Canadians the truth, that there are 14,000 more youth unemployed since the day that youth strategy program was launched?
The prime minister meets in Ottawa next week with the provincial and territorial leaders. Will the minister ensure that the prime minister goes to that meeting and makes it into something more than a photo op? Will he push the prime minister to show genuine leadership by taking to the meeting a comprehensive youth employment strategy with precise targets and timetables and come away from the meeting with our own target 2000 plan for Canada's youth?