Mr. Speaker, I want to say very clearly that we sympathize with the loss of jobs for many Canadians today. However, having said that, we have an economic action plan that has in fact worked. We have seen over 900,000 net new jobs created in Canada since the end of the recession, July 2009.
Having said that, we intend to continue with our economic action plan into 2013 to create jobs, to make sure long-term prosperity is in our future and to make sure our economy continues to grow.