Mr. Speaker, nothing could be further from the truth. We are talking about cherry-picking statistics.
In fact, this past year, Canada's exports went up by 3.2%, almost $15 billion, and our trade deficit dropped by almost $3 billion. What is more, our government's low-tax pro-trade plan has created somewhere in the order of 1.1 million new jobs for Canadians.
That is a job creation record we are very proud of. We will not apologize for that.