Mr. Speaker, in the spring the hon. member was running for the leadership. We did not complain because he was not in the House of Commons. The leadership this summer we were not in the House of Commons. He cannot use that. The number of ministers running in the leadership is not great.
The reality is that while the Americans lost millions of jobs last year, the Government of Canada created 565,000 new jobs in the previous months. We had two bad months--