Madam Speaker, I appreciate the intervention by the Leader of the Opposition today.
I want to address something. I realize this is on Keystone specifically, but the member was talking about unemployment rates at the beginning of his remarks and how Canada's unemployment rate is so high. It is true that we have the second-highest unemployment rate in the G7. One thing the Conservatives do not talk about, and I have heard this said a number of times today, is where we are with respect to deaths per million people, namely that we are rated second best in the G7 countries. When we compare ourselves with a place like the U.S., just to the south of us, its unemployment rate is 2 percentage points lower than ours, but its death rate per million people is 2.5 times ours. This government took strong, decisive action to keep and encourage people to stay at home to save lives.
Would the Leader of the Opposition not agree with me that a small temporary increase in unemployment is a good return on saving hundreds of thousands of lives.