Mr. Speaker, less than a week ago the finance minister, coming out of the G-7, assured us that his budget would tackle unemployment. It turns out that he was being somewhat liberal with the truth. He jettisoned his jobs commitment while crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
With inflation below 1% we see firm targets for inflation. With unemployment still hovering around 9% we see no targets for jobs.
How can the finance minister take no responsibility for 1.4 million Canadians remaining unemployed well into the next millennium?