Mr. Speaker, do you know what Canadians accept? They accept the fact that the government invested $300 million in the transitional jobs fund and turned it into $1.2 billion.
They accept the fact that for every dollar we put into it we leveraged $9 to create work in ridings of high unemployment across the country.
They accept that this money does not just go into the ridings of Liberal members of parliament but into ridings of members of the NDP, the Tory party, and even of the Reform Party.
What Canadians accept is the fact that our unemployment levels have continued to come down. They are now at the lowest—