Mr. Speaker, if the member would listen, he would learn something.
Everybody in Canada is looking at exactly the same thing. Under our previous administration before the Conservatives came to office, we had an unemployment rate in the country that went below 6%, when 5.5% is considered to be full employment. The pressures on our human resources potential to address all of the demands by the marketplace were so strained that we needed to come up with a demographic plan to address all of those.
Today, the unemployment rate is above 8%. People can no longer look with the same kind of optimism—