Mr. Speaker, my home province of B.C. lost 68,000 full time jobs last month, the worse drop in 30 years and proportionately higher than anywhere else in Canada: Tembec, 1,000 jobs gone; Teck Cominco, 400 jobs gone; Western Canadian Coal Corporation, hundreds of jobs gone.
Thousands of men, women and their families have lost their jobs and are in danger of losing their homes and their life savings.
I ask the Prime Minister to stand in his place, look Canadians in the eye and tell them what he is doing for them.