Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his enlightenment about the bridge and its application.
I would like to do a little arithmetic because it seems that our friends on the other side need help with that. They do not like statistics but sometimes they help enlighten the debate, so I am going to quote some statistics.
In July 2007 approximately 16,848,300 Canadians had jobs. In 2011 that number is 17,344,200--