Mr. Speaker, the first step to solving a problem is admitting that we have one. The finance minister is making the same mistake that his predecessor Mr. Wilson made in this place in 1991 when he refused to admit we were in a recession.
Instead of giving Canadians happy talk, Canadians who are losing their jobs, and there has been an increase in McJobs but a loss in real full time jobs, does the finance minister really plan in the face of this recession to give six billion new dollars to his friends in industry and HRDC to waste instead of creating jobs through increased tax relief to put more money in the pockets of--