Mr. Speaker, for 77 months the unemployment rate has been over 9 per cent in this country, which is the highest rate for the longest time since the great depression. People are going bankrupt in record numbers. One number the Minister of Finance did not trot out in his long diatribe was the fact that 100,000 people's lives are in tatters in this country because they have gone bankrupt under the Liberal government's policies.
What did the minister's parliamentary secretary say when the unemployment numbers were announced? He said: "It is disappointing". It is not disappointing, it is a tragedy. It is an absolute disgrace for people whose lives are being left in tatters because of the policies of this Liberal government. Will the Minister of Finance tell us when he is going to make a real commitment to job creation and family security by reducing taxes?