Mr. Speaker, that is a bizarre thing to say, that it is positive to lose jobs.
Nineteen thousand jobs were lost last month. Seventy-two thousand full-time jobs in the month of October are gone. Mills and factories that support families across this country are gone. They have lost high-paying jobs that are the bedrock of our communities. Manufacturing jobs are now at their lowest levels since records started being kept in 1976. The Conservatives are even worse than the Liberals.
Why does the government not have a real jobs plan? Why is it asleep at the wheel? Why do the Conservatives not care about losing--