Madam Speaker, with great respect, if the hon. member wants to compare apples to apples, I would point him to the fact that 71% of the jobs have returned from the peak pandemic job losses in Canada compared with 56% in the United States. If he wants apples to apples, I would point him to labour force participation, which is 64.3% in Canada, compared with 61.3% in the United States.
Before we get to the job numbers, if he wants apples to apples, our public health response may not have been perfect, but I would invite him to talk to the family members of 500,000 Americans who are no longer living that might have been had they adopted an approach that we took in Canada. We know that public health and economic policies are indivisible and I—