Mr. Speaker, according to the NDP leader, resource sector workers are a disease. He falsely claims that they are costing Canada jobs elsewhere.
I will set the record straight. Ontario's economy benefits from the development of its own natural resources and, in manufacturing, for the resources sector across the country. Nationally, in 2010, the natural resource sectors employed over 760,000 workers.
Resource development is an important component to the economy and creates hundreds of thousands of direct, indirect and induced jobs across the country.
The NDP leader's politics of division, pitting one region of the country against others and his ill-informed remarks, show that his foolish economic policy will raise prices and cost Canadians jobs.