Mr. Speaker, Conservatives create a massive backlog and then want credit for pretending to even help clean up the mess they created.
It is also like this when it comes to the economy, an economy that is hemorrhaging jobs in the energy sector, the service sector, and the retail sector.
It has been weeks since the current finance minister even answered a single question in the House of Commons, and the Conservatives' answer to a struggling economy is to deny there is a problem; delay any action by not bringing in a budget; and desperately hope the problem will simply go away on its own. Trying to change the channel on this issue will not help the almost 1.3 million Canadians who are out of a job.
When are we finally going to see the current finance minister get off the bench and bring in a plan to help Canadians get back to work?