Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's strategy for job creation has been truly a failure. This was demonstrated by the fact that some three million Canadians applied for unemployment insurance last year, which cost the government more than $13 billion. That is the Prime Minister's do nothing job strategy.
On another point I want to congratulate every hard working Canadian for contributing a total of $26 billion over the past three years toward reducing the federal deficit. I am pleased the Prime Minister has acknowledged their contribution. These Canadians are solely responsible for reducing our federal deficit and the Prime Minister must not take any credit for this. The victory is not his and Canadians know this.
The hard working middle class Canadians had their pockets drained once again and we must thank all of them for their generosity.