Madam Speaker, the latest job numbers are out, and they are bad. Unemployment is up 7%. It increased to 14% from just one year ago and is the highest it has been in a decade, outside of COVID.
There has been virtually no growth in employment in 2025. One in every five students is unemployed and looking for work. Stats Canada itself confirmed just how bad things have gotten in our economy: “People are facing greater difficulties...in the current labour market.” This is the result of 10 years of the same Liberal inflationary and job-killing policies. The Prime Minister wants to double down on the same failed approach that got us into this mess in the first place. He promised to cap spending at 2%, but the first spending bill that he tabled increased it by a whopping 8%. That is half a trillion dollars more of inflationary spending with no budget.
On behalf of the 1.6 million Canadians who are unemployed, when will the Liberals get serious and table a spring budget, so Canadians can get back to work?