Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the work that the member for Brampton South and I did together on the health committee. I have a question about the budget.
As everyone in the House knows, Oshawa has had some really rough times with the closure of the GM plant. This year the government will have a $20-billion deficit. Because the world economy has been doing so well, there are $20 billion in new revenue. I hear my Liberal colleagues talk about creating one million new jobs.
I want to throw out a scary statistic for my Liberal colleagues and also for my colleagues on this side. If we look at a $20-billion deficit and $20 billion in revenue, the $40 billion extra spent this year is enough to have one million Canadians making $40,000 a year just to sit at home. If this is the type of job creation the Liberals are talking about, I really have a problem with that.
Right now Canada's competitiveness has gone down three points in the G7. We are the point where we have gone down to the 13th least competitive.
My colleague has an auto sector in her community. She has seen job losses. Could she point out in the budget if there is anything that will help the Brampton plant when it is time to acquire a new mandate for that plant? Is there anything in the budget that will help these plants compete properly with American plants so they can get a new product in those plants?