Mr. Speaker, under the Conservatives, weak job growth has not come close to keeping pace with population growth.
Blacks has just announced that nearly 500 more jobs will be lost, and yet another closure in the retail sector adds more than 1.3 million to the number of Canadians already unemployed. Many of these workers will not quality under the Conservative cuts to EI, leaving them without support while they look for new jobs.
Why are the Conservatives blowing money on tax breaks for the wealthy few instead of helping the workers who need it most?