Mr. Speaker, since this government came to power in 1993, over 1.4 million more Canadians are working and unemployment has gone down from 11.4% to 8.1%, a drop of more than 3%. More needs to be done and we feel we are going in the right direction.
This government has a number of programs to help create jobs. Even our employment insurance system was redesigned to include measures to help people get back to work. There are 245,000 Canadians who have gone back to work, thanks to the active measures—