Mr. Speaker, apparently there is still a little gas in the tank over there.
If we add in all the people who have dropped out of the job force over the last couple of years, the real unemployment rate in Canada is over 12 per cent, more than double the American rate.
If it is not the Liberal's jobs record, maybe the minister wants to run on their tax record or on their bankruptcy record. How about the $3,000 drop in disposable income Canadian families have suffered since this government came to power and the 37 tax increases? What about the record levels of bankruptcy, a record in 1995, 1996 and 1997?
Which one of these is the minister planning to run on, or do the Liberals plan to run on empty just like they have done for the last 3.5 years?