Mr. Speaker, I bet that plan looked great when the minister sketched it out on the back of a napkin.
There are 600,000 lost manufacturing jobs and Conservatives refuse to even acknowledge that there is a problem. There is a dramatic drop in oil prices. With youth unemployment still at twice the national average and virtually no growth in private-sector jobs for more than a year, Canadians expect their government to bring forward ideas.
Instead, we have a 460-page omnibus bill that does nothing to help get youth back to work, does nothing to help bring those manufacturing jobs back and does nothing to help stimulate growth in the private sector.
When is the minister going to drop his failed attempt and EI plan, spending half a billion dollars for 800 jobs, and give Canadians a job plan that they can actually believe in?