Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary said that these numbers might reflect young people leaving the workforce to go back to school. That suggests she does not actually understand how the unemployment rate is calculated, because the unemployment rate is the percentage of those in the workforce who are trying to work and are not able to.
The unemployment rate has gone up. It is approaching 15%, which is approaching half a million young people who are unemployed. That is one in seven. It is time for the Liberals to stop trying to pat themselves on the back and recognize that this is a crisis for Canadian young people.
It is time for them to reverse course. When will they?