Mr. Speaker, to fix long-term unemployment, we need more jobs, not more temporary foreign workers.
In 2013, Canada's job growth stalled. To quote The Economist magazine, Canada's “post-crisis glow is fading” . The workforce participation rate in Canada has hit a 13-year low, and our growth rate has fallen behind that of the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.
How far must our economy slide before the Conservatives realize, before the finance minister realizes, that his status quo is not working for Canadians?