Mr. Speaker, it is a simple fact that when unemployment goes down the number of claims and benefits paid out also goes down.
We think this report has some good news in it too. It tells us that our measures to help people are working. The 450,000 new jobs that were created last year made it the best year in a decade. Of those 143,000 were for youth and 300,000 were for women.
If the member wants to know what we are doing for youth and women, this is what we are doing: we are helping them by getting them jobs.