Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity to continue.
When we took office four and a half years ago, we started making the kinds of investments that would trigger economic growth.
What have the results been? About 1.2 million jobs were added to the Canadian economy, including more than 30,000 just in the past month. We have also made sure that the benefits of the growth that we are seeing actually land on the kitchen tables of families. More than one million Canadians are not living in poverty today who were four and a half years ago.
This is the kind of growth that we should trigger, growth that works for everyone.