Madam Speaker, respectfully, the parliamentary secretary's response generally proved my point. She said there are changes in the workforce coming, and then she highlighted, as the government's response to those changes, the continuation of a program, the Canada summer jobs program, that has existed since the 1990s. I had barely been born when the program started.
The continuation of a program that provides, on average, eight-week-long summer paid employment is not a response to the metastasizing crisis of now close to half a million young people being unemployed. They are not looking for eight-week jobs; they are looking for permanent jobs. That is why we need to unleash our economy, fix immigration, fix training and build homes where the jobs are.
We need to support the trades, and the tone matters. The government has spent 10 years running down trades workers and the sectors they work in by attacking the natural resource sector, by attacking the forestry sector and by undermining the value of trades work. When will it get a plan?