Mr. Speaker, a year after the great financial crisis began, Canada had lower unemployment than in the United States of America. That was under a previous Conservative government. Today, the Prime Minister has the humiliating job of meeting with the U.S. President while Canada's unemployment is a third higher than in the United States and higher than in Germany, Japan, the U.K. and all of the G7 countries combined.
What are the 800,000 Canadians without paycheques going to do to pay the bills, while they watch workers around the world get back to their jobs?