Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Fort McMurray—Athabasca for his speech.
Yesterday, at the Standing Committee on Finance, my colleague was forced to acknowledge before experts from the parliamentary budget office that the 900,000 jobs that were supposedly created by this government—at least, that is what it claims—were created naturally and had absolutely nothing to with his government's measures.
However, I would like to bring the discussion around to another subject—namely, the $600 billion accumulated by and tied up in Canadian businesses. That works out to $25,000 per Canadian family, money that is not creating jobs or increasing the competitiveness of businesses.
Why is there not a single measure in BIll C-60 to encourage, if not force businesses to invest some of their cash assets?