Mr. Speaker, it is always amazing as a New Democrat to sit here and watch the Tories and Liberals banter over who is responsible for the high debt and deficit of the country when both are responsible.
I admired the speech of the hon. member for Calgary Centre. I agree with many of the things that he has said, especially regarding the military. The fact is that the budget was to end the terrorist threat in Canada as we would not allow terrorists in. However, when we look at the miniscule budget that went to the coast guard and the armed forces, terrorists can still drift into this nation and do whatever harm they wish to do. The budget will do nothing about that.
My great concern is that the previous budgets years ago used to have employment figures in them. There were targets for unemployment rates. Since 1996 those figures have disappeared. They are gone. There has been absolutely no commitment on the part of the government over the last eight years to tackle the unemployment situation or to even tell Canadians what the current rate of unemployment is, whether it is going up or down, and what the government is going to do about it.
Why does the hon. member think those figures are missing from previous budgets and this budget as well?