Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the hon. member. I know he has probably done the same thing as people who make speeches in provincial governments or sometimes in cities. We often hear about the number of new jobs created. That figure is often very high because they never mention those who have lost their jobs. When we hear that, it is a distortion whether it is here, in the provinces or wherever. For instance, if the government created 500,000 new jobs but 400,000 were lost through factories closing, it would not be fair to say that 500,000 new jobs were created.
Could the member comment on that traditional way of presenting those figures? We always speak about jobs created but we never speak about the jobs that were unfortunately lost.