Mr. Chair, the minister seems to be having trouble with the statistic here.
The employment rate was actually better before the recession than it is in the present day. That is a statistic that should trouble any minister.
Let us talk about the temporary foreign worker program.
Can the minister tell us the expansion of the temporary foreign worker program? I will just put it on the record. It has tripled since 2006, when the current government took office. The parliamentary budget office has said that puts downward pressure on the number of jobs available to Canadians and has decreased them in number.
Has the finance department done any analysis of the effect of the temporary foreign worker program on the number of jobs available to Canadians?