Mr. Speaker, I have some advice for that member. He should maybe stop parroting the talking points of the corporate lobbyists who are courting his office, because that is what it sounds like he is repeating right now. Although that story sounds rich, the numbers from StatsCan do not lie. This is a government agency that provides these unbiased statistics: Youth unemployment is up to 14.7% and it keeps going up. It is the highest level since 2010 coming out of the great recession. There are 460,000 young Canadians, aged 15 to 24, nearly 15%, unemployed nationally; 17% of students cannot find jobs; and 17,000 young people lost their jobs just last month. Ontario's unemployment now tops 700,000, which is up 83,000 in a single year.
If that member has the guts, maybe he should go back to his riding, talk to some students and repeat that story while these statistics, this reality, is happening all across the country.