Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Industry said that private investments are up. However, that is clearly not the case in the manufacturing sector. In 2006, investments in that sector in Quebec dropped, while in the rest of Canada, they rose by a mind-boggling one tenth of 1%. The minister seems to be unaware that over the past four years, Quebec's manufacturing industry has lost 100,000 jobs.
Will the minister drop his ideological approach and propose a real strategy for industry?