Mr. Speaker, after Bas Iris announced several weeks ago that it was creating
about 3,000 new jobs, it seems Household Canada is also getting involved in creating jobs in Montreal's east end.
The company has just announced that it will hire 592 new employees for its call centre. With these new jobs, the Household call centre will be the largest centre in Quebec, with more than 1,000 employees.
We would like to point out that the bilingual capabilities of the workforce were also a factor in attracting this investment to Montreal. The federal and provincial governments will invest, respectively, $2.8 million and $2 million in this project.
We are delighted with this excellent news for our economy, which again confirms Montreal's leading position in the financial services sector.