Mr. Speaker, Canadians are fed up with the revisionist numbers the finance minister uses to put a pretty face on the ugliest job creation record since the dirty thirties.
Here are the facts: There are 1.5 million unemployed Canadians, just like with Mulroney, and 800,000 people are moonlighting just to make ends meet. Our largest trading partner has an unemployment rate half of what ours is. Despite the $6 billion infrastructure program, employment in construction actually has dropped by 40,000 jobs. Canadians have had a $3,000 pay cut because of the 37 separate tax hikes by this government.
When is the light going to go on for the minister? When is he going to understand that taxes, taxes, taxes kill jobs, jobs, jobs?