Mr. Speaker, for the past 76 months unemployment has remained above 9 per cent. Youth unemployment is a fixture at 17 per cent. Every welfare and job creation program introduced by this government has been a failure. Yet the Minister of Natural Resources was quoted last week in Alberta as saying the pain is over. She wants to get back to more Liberal tax and spend policies to create jobs.
Will the minister acknowledge that the tax and spend youth jobs strategy is merely another welfare program for the unemployed rather than a serious attempt to get Albertans and Canadians back to work?