Mr. Speaker, if that were true, why is the unemployment rate going up? The government is not taking any action for heaven's sake.
Let us turn to another group in our society. What about seniors? They are now discovering that their pension cheques are going to go up by less than 1%, just pennies a month. Just like the unemployed, it turns out that seniors are not a priority for the government and yet many of them are living in poverty.
Who is getting the benefits? Who is the priority? The banks are getting $600 million this year in additional tax breaks alone. For that amount of money, every senior could be lifted out of poverty.
Why does the Prime Minister not do it?