Mr. Speaker, last Friday the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development stated that February's unemployment numbers showed that “Atlantic Canada and every single province had a reduction in their unemployment rate this month”.
It is amazing that the parliamentary secretary would make this statement considering that in British Columbia the unemployment rate rose from 9.3% to 9.7%.
I ask the minister is this just another example of this government's distorting the facts to congratulate itself or is it that it no longer—