Debates of Oct. 20th, 2026

Interparliamentary Delegations

[The Speaker, Francis Scarpaleggia]

I have the honour to lay before the House the report of a Canadian parliamentary delegation concerning its visit to the United Kingdom on November 12 and 13, 2025.

Government Response to Petitions

[Kevin Lamoureux, Liberal, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8)(a), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to one petition. This return will be tabled in an electronic format.

Criminal Code

[Michael Guglielmin, Conservative, Vaughan—Woodbridge, ON]

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-293, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violent home invasion).

Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve to feel safe in their own homes. Over the past several years, we have seen a rise in violent home invasions in Vaughan—Woodbridge and communities all across this country.

Crimes like these have a psychological impact on not only the victims, but their loved ones and the communities around them. In fact, 16 months after a home invasion, a four-year-old boy was asking his parents if the bad guys would be coming back.

That is why I am proud to stand in this House today to table my bill, the safe at home act, to protect Canadians against violent home invasions. This bill will do the following: create a stand-alone offence for violent home invasions carrying a maximum life sentence, create a mandatory minimum sentence of five years, ensure reverse onus on bail and provide DNA orders following conviction.

I look forward to the support of all members of this House because Canadians should be able to lock their doors at night, put their children to bed and feel safe in their own homes.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)

Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

Mr. Speaker, I move that the 10th report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities presented to the House on May 26, be concurred in.

I will be sharing my time with my colleague, the hon. member for Montmorency—Charlevoix.

This morning we are talking about the jobs crisis facing our country, and in particular facing young people. If I may be indulged briefly, this morning I want to share how proud I am to be a Canadian and an Albertan. Yesterday, Albertans decisively endorsed remaining in Canada, recognizing our challenges, working through those challenges and doing so as part of the Canadian family. Albertans rejected the idea of divorce from the rest of the federation. We may still need counselling from time to time. Within the federation, things are not perfect and there is work to be done. However, what I have seen this morning shows that in almost every single provincial riding, a majority voted in favour of staying in Canada. I want to thank the member for Parkland for his excellent leadership as part of those efforts.

This morning, we are back here fighting about a really important issue, jobs and opportunities for young people, moving the concurrence of the 10th report, an excellent report of the human resources committee. In that context, we also note really dire job numbers that we received for September. Here is where we are right now in Canada in terms of jobs. We are at a 29-year low in terms of labour force participation. Fewer people, as a proportion of the population, are in the labour force today than at any point in the last 29 years outside of the acute phase of the pandemic. That indicates not only are we seeing high and rising unemployment, but that many more people are dropping out of the workforce because they are losing hope.

Canadians who are trying to find jobs are struggling more. The job-finding rate, for example, is down to 30.6%, well below the pre-pandemic average. Youth unemployment is up to 13%. As well, the unemployment rate overall is up. In the last two months, Canada has lost 110,000 jobs. We are seeing all of these troubling indicators in terms of employment adding up to this 29-year low in workforce participation. This is the result of long-running policy failures of the government.

In the face of these policy failures, Conservatives have taken a constructive approach. Last fall, we put forward the Conservative youth jobs plan. At the same time, we were pursuing a study of the unemployment crisis, particularly the youth unemployment crisis, at the human resources committee. We were able to bring that committee to some key recommendations, a unanimous report that really aligned with what Conservatives had been saying in the Conservative youth jobs plan.

Our jobs plan had four key aspects: unleashing the economy, fixing immigration, fixing training and building homes where the jobs are. The recommendations in this report very much parallel those specific proposals that we brought in the Conservative youth jobs plan. Now it is time for the government to act. We see these dire job numbers. We have put our proposals on the table. Those proposals have been reflected in the 10th report of the human resources committee and unanimously endorsed by the committee that is studying the issue.

Now the government needs to actually act and respond to these proposals that we have put forward. Some of these recommendations I want to highlight would make a real difference in terms of getting Canadians back to work and addressing this decades-running low in terms of labour force participation.

When it comes to unleashing the economy, the first proposal is part of the Conservative youth jobs plan, and we can see the first recommendation here, that the government “seek to reduce taxes and red tape in order to address concerns about how the taxation and regulatory environment has limited productivity growth and held back youth unemployment.” It is common sense that young people in particular are often the last in and the first out when it comes to employment. They are the last to be hired and the first to be fired if a business is concerned about its future.

In order to address the youth unemployment crisis, we need a climate in which businesses are optimistic and hopeful, and where there is opportunity for people to start and grow a business. However, what we heard time and again at committee is that it is a very challenging environment as a result of taxation and red tape to start and grow a business. That is where this recommendation comes from.

The second recommendation is that “the Government of Canada recognize the positive role that natural resource development, manufacturing, and all other sectors play in contributing to the economy, and seek to valorize work in all sectors.”

For too long, we have had a Liberal government, for the last 11 years, whose impulse is picking winners and losers, deciding which sectors it likes and which sectors it likes less, including instances where government statements have pushed a kind of stigma around certain kinds of work and certain kinds of jobs. In the face of that negative messaging, we need to highlight the dignity and value of all work and affirm a respect for natural resources development, for manufacturing and for all sectors of this economy and encourage young people to take opportunities in the sectors where that work is available. In terms of unleashing the economy, this has been a key priority for us and these recommendations are included in this report.

In terms of fixing immigration, it is clear that failures within the immigration system, failures of the current government when it comes to the management of immigration, have contributed to unemployment in general and youth unemployment in particular. Therefore, we have three recommendations in the HUMA report that deal precisely with this issue, that the government work with various organizations as well as provinces and territories to“ ensure that immigration levels plans incorporate labour-market analyses, particularly impacts on young workers”.

The fourth recommendation is about strengthening “systems of credential recognition so that skilled newcomers are not forced to compete for entry-level jobs.” This is a major issue and one that Conservatives have been championing for a long time. The failure of this government to undertake appropriate credential recognition for newcomers is a double negative for our economy because it means that we lose out on the skill of that skilled worker who could be working at a higher skill level and that newcomer whose credentials are not recognized is then in a position where they have to compete for an entry-level job, which makes it harder for someone, often a young person, first entering the labour market to access those opportunities.

The fifth recommendation when it comes to addressing how the immigration challenges are contributing to unemployment is that “the Government of Canada apply strict penalties to companies hiring illegal workers.” It has not done that. In fact, we have identified instances where the government has offered multiple rounds of public subsidy to companies that have been previously caught firing Canadians in order to hire illegal workers. The companies fired Canadians, hired illegal workers and then received multiple rounds of taxpayer-funded handouts from the government.

These are some of the things we need to do to fix the immigration system and, through that, to address the challenges in terms of youth unemployment.

There are many recommendations in this report that address our Conservative proposal to fix training. When it comes to training, we need to be training Canadian young people for the jobs that exist in Canada. That means offering more support and recognition for trades work. It means encouraging young people to be aware of and study the labour market issues. It also means opening up more opportunities for work-integrated learning that align with the needs of the labour market. There are many recommendations around this.

Unfortunately, though, the government has moved in the opposite direction. We proposed offering relatively more generous grants to students studying in fields that are in demand. The Liberals have actually cut off student grants for students at vocational institutions if they are privately operated. The Liberals are making it more difficult for young people in vocational programs to access student grants at a time when we have serious shortages of people with the vocational skills that we need. Our approach needs to not be this Liberal approach of arbitrarily deciding to esteem certain kinds of careers over others. Rather, we need to support training for the jobs that exist in the real world here in Canada so that young people can get training for the jobs that exist.

The fourth proposal in our Conservative youth jobs plan was to build homes where the jobs are, to make it easier for people to relocate to where jobs are. This is recommendation 13 in the HUMA report: “That the Government of Canada study providing accelerated capital cost write-off for employers investing in workforce housing, recognizing the opportunity for young people to relocate for work if appropriate housing is available.”

This is a constructive report that builds on constructive proposals the Conservatives have put forward. We have the current government presiding over a 29-year low in workforce participation, but we are not just raising the alarm about that. We are also offering constructive solutions through our youth jobs plan and through this report. Now it is time for the government to actually act on the proposals that we have put forward so that young Canadians, and all Canadians, can get back to work.

[Kevin Lamoureux, Liberal, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]

Madam Speaker, why have the Conservatives brought forward this concurrence motion today when there is substantive legislation that we are hoping to build upon. I am wondering if the member could provide his thoughts.

Given what is taking place around the world today, and given what is taking place between Canada and the U.S.A. with Trump tariffs, trade issues and the need to expand beyond Canadian borders, with the new Prime Minister, we have seen a net increase in actual jobs in Canada, which speaks volumes on the level of commitment the government is pushing forward to achieve those types of results, even at a time when it is very challenging.

I am wondering if the member could provide his thoughts on the impact U.S.A. trade, Trump and tariffs are having on the Canadian economy.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

Madam Speaker, I will put the following facts to the member: 42,000 jobs were lost in August, which was before the latest escalation in the trade conflict with the United States. We have lost 110,000 jobs over the last two months. Moreover, we are at a 29-year low in workforce participation. We have consistently had youth unemployment rates well above pre-pandemic averages, and this has been in place for a long time under the current Prime Minister.

The member trying to blame very recent events for a long-running employment crisis, or alternatively trying to say that everything is fine, is just out of step with the reality that young people are experiencing. The reality is that young people are struggling to afford homes and to find jobs. They are increasingly losing hope. We need to give them hope again through the constructive measures we have put forward and by taking responsibility for the things that we can control rather than, as the member is doing, saying that everything is fine.

[Gord Johns, NDP, Courtenay—Alberni, BC]

Madam Speaker, I do not know about the timing of this, but it is certainly such an important topic. I think about young people and youth unemployment, and in rural coastal British Columbia, it is a real issue. We have seen immigration changes, and I am glad the member talked about immigration, because right now the model for higher learning institutions in this country means that, for these institutions to be able to survive, they have to go out to attract foreign students to be able to supplement their revenue. Now the federal government has made significant changes that have left higher learning institutions in absolute chaos on how to operate, and they are cutting programs for skills training, apprenticeship and education.

Does my colleague not agree that the federal government needs to step forward and help support that revenue? My son was rejected from an apprenticeship program and told it was going to be a three-year wait-list to do refrigeration, when there is a demand for people to deliver refrigeration. Maybe the member can talk about how the federal government can play a significant role in fixing the mess it has created.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

Madam Speaker, our focus needs to be on training Canadian young people for the jobs that exist here in Canada. The member talked about training in areas where there are shortages. This is exactly the issue. We have proposed, as part of our constructive Conservative youth jobs plan, to offer more generous grants to students studying for fields that are in demand.

The Liberals have gone the opposite direction. They have arbitrarily decided to cut grants for students who are studying at private vocational institutions. The effect of this, in certain regions of the country especially, is to make it very difficult, almost impossible, for students from low- and middle-income backgrounds who rely on student grants to be able to pursue studies in those fields.

We are proposing training for Canadian young people to fill Canadian jobs. The government is going in the opposite direction.

[Colin Reynolds, Conservative, Elmwood—Transcona, MB]

Madam Speaker, I am wondering, given the seriousness of this issue, do you feel that the Liberal government is acting fast enough and doing enough to address the troubles that our young people are having today?

[The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès), Alexandra Mendes]

This is a reminder to the hon. member that I cannot say anything. The question goes through me to the hon. member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

Madam Speaker, I do want to take the opportunity to recognize the excellent work my colleague and friend has done on the human resources committee on this issue, bringing his vast experience from working in the trades to inform the committee and other members.

No, the government is not moving fast enough. The government is not moving at all. In fact, in some cases, as I mentioned with the student grants issue, it is moving in the wrong direction. We have put solutions on the table. The Liberals should adopt the solutions we have put forward in this report and elsewhere.

[Gabriel Hardy, Conservative, Montmorency—Charlevoix, QC]

Madam Speaker, my colleague from Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan just gave us the national figures, but I want to talk about what they mean for Montmorency—Charlevoix.

Last month, I spoke about Benjamin, a 20-year-old from Montmorency—Charlevoix who has a vocational diploma in sheet metal work. He gets up at 4 a.m. six days a week to install ventilation systems in homes that he will never be able to afford. He earns $800 a week, which he uses to pay for his car, rent, insurance, gas and groceries. By Friday evening, there is nothing left, and yet Benjamin has done everything that was asked of him. He has done everything that is expected of a young person. He went to school and got his diploma, and he gets up early every morning to go to work. Benjamin is one of the lucky ones who actually has a job.

Today, we are debating the 10th report of the—

[The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès), Alexandra Mendes]

I must interrupt the hon. member.

[Anna Roberts, Conservative, King—Vaughan, ON]

Madam Speaker, the interpretation is sketchy. It is on and off.

[The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès), Alexandra Mendes]

We will check to see whether the interpretation is working properly now.

The member for Montmorency—Charlevoix can continue.

[Gabriel Hardy, Conservative, Montmorency—Charlevoix, QC]

Madam Speaker, as I was saying, Benjamin is lucky because at least he has a job.

Today, we are debating the 10th report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities, entitled “Youth Employment in Canada”.

Members from all parties participated in the study. The committee heard from 38 witnesses and produced 16 recommendations. However, one issue kept coming up: the urgent need for action.

The committee is right. From January to August 2025, the youth unemployment rate averaged 14% across the country, the highest level since 2012, excluding the pandemic years. More than half of unemployed youth are full-time students seeking employment, and the proportion of young job seekers who have been looking for work for more than six months has risen from 17% to 22%.

The situation continues to worsen. In September, the unemployment rate among youth aged 15 to 19 climbed to 19.3%. Nearly one in five teenagers looking for their first paycheque could not find a job. During the same month, Quebec shed 49,400 jobs. Looking at the national picture, seven out of every 10 jobs lost in Canada were lost in Quebec. Over the past year, Quebec has lost 116,200 full-time jobs. In the retail sector, where many young people begin their careers and where many Quebeckers, including myself, started working and earned their first paycheque, there are 33,100 fewer jobs than there were a year ago.

Behind every number is a face. When a summer job is no longer available, a young person's introduction to adult life is delayed. Opportunities to build responsibility and independence disappear.

The committee heard three things that the House cannot ignore.

To begin with, first jobs are disappearing. Mr. Humbert, from the Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec, told us that young people have absorbed 80% of the job losses, and when they knock on a door looking for help, thousands of young people are turned away because, ultimately, their cases do not slot into any boxes. This is the new bureaucratic reality.

Next, even those who are working can no longer make ends meet. Food Banks Canada told us that in March 2025, more than one in four food bank clients were between the ages of 12 and 30. That is our youth. More than a quarter of young people aged 18 to 24 say they are skipping meals because they cannot afford to eat. It is appalling that here, in Canada, there are people who do not have enough money to eat. When a 20-year-old who works six days a week is struggling to keep a roof over his head, the problem is not his work ethic. The problem is that the economy has failed him.

Lastly, our safety net is torn and young people are falling through. Communities in Charlevoix and on the Côte‑de‑Beaupré rely on tourism, forestry and seasonal work. The committee heard testimony about the EI spring gap. During the weeks between the end of their benefits and the start of the season, many people have no money coming in at all. In 2024, barely one in two unemployed workers qualified for EI.

I have one last statistic from economist Pierre Fortin: In 2016, we took in 25 adult newcomers per 100 young people. We are now taking in 70 newcomers per 100 young people. I have often said that newcomers are not the problem. The real problem is the plan, the broken immigration system that disregards our capacity to absorb newcomers and fails to distribute immigration across the regions. The ratio has tripled over the past nine years, yet there is no plan for jobs or housing, and young people across the country are paying the price. Montmorency—Charlevoix needs workers, but young people in big cities need jobs. Now we even have newcomers saying that they, too, are looking for work. What is the point of taking people in if we cannot provide what they need and if it is detrimental to the people who are already here and to those who were promised a bright future in Canada?

The minister's response to the report was respectful. She thanked the witnesses and listed a number of programs. She even announced a new apprenticeship bonus last month. However, it is important to understand how the Liberals talk about support. I am going to focus on the facts and what was said. On EI, the government remains committed to studying improvements. Regarding immigration, the government is supportive, in principle. When it comes to student work placements, the government does not actually support the recommendations; it “acknowledges” them.

Last month, I said here in the House that slogans do not build anything. Construction sites do. I will add today that studies do not hire anyone; companies do. When a young person in Baie-Saint‑Paul cannot find a summer job, it becomes a problem for their whole family. When young people leave Charlevoix because there are no jobs or housing, it becomes a problem for the whole region. When an entire generation from Baie‑Sainte‑Catherine to Lac‑Beauport, from Saint John to Victoria, is told to wait, study and hope, it becomes a problem for the whole country. When Parliament sees all this and responds with yet another study, that is a moral failure.

This country was built by people who did not wait around. It was built by people who pushed forward. It was built by young people, 20-year-olds, who cleared our land, laid rail, built dams on the north shore, tapped Alberta's oil sands and built arenas in every city across the country. Young people today are no different: They are not asking for charity; they just want a chance.

Here is what a Conservative government will do. Here are our proposals. The good news is that the committee has already started writing some of our recommendations. We are going to unleash the economy. We are going to lower taxes and cut red tape so that employers can hire. In fact, that is the committee's first recommendation. The government said it supports it; perhaps it is time for action. We are going to build homes where the jobs are. We are going to build homes for purchase, not just for rental, so that young people can become homeowners. We are going to let employers that build workforce housing write off 100% of their investment. There are plenty of job vacancies in Charlevoix. Unfortunately, employers cannot find anyone to fill them because there is nowhere for people to live. The committee recommended this. The Liberal government acknowledged the recommendation, but we Conservatives are going to make it a reality.

We are going to realign immigration with the jobs that are actually available. We are going to fix credential recognition so that a trained engineer is not competing with a 17-year-old to work as a dishwasher. We are going to fix training. Financial assistance for education should provide more support to young people who choose fields where there is a shortage of workers, based on real labour market data. Taxpayer dollars should be used properly and should prepare our young people for work. We need to promote blue-collar trades. We need to train 350,000 new apprentices in five years and expand the union training and innovation program. People do not need bonuses that will allegedly come some time in the future. They need support now, while the training is available, so our young people can enter the workforce. Regions like mine need an EI system that reflects how people in Montmorency—Charlevoix actually work. They do not need a temporary measure that is renewed every two years.

Before getting into politics, I spent my life at the gym. I coached hockey, mostly for young people. I learned one simple truth: A young person does not grow by sitting on the bench waiting for their turn. They grow the day someone believes in them enough to send them out onto the ice. An entire generation is sitting on the bench right now. They have done the drills. They have learned the plays. They have got their helmets on. Maybe it is time we sent them out onto the ice.

The witnesses have spoken. The committee has spoken. Now it is time for the government to take action.

To Benjamin and every other young person who gets up at the crack of dawn to build this country, I want to say that we see them and we will not make them wait. Young people do not need another study. They need a chance.

I move, seconded by the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan:

That the question be now put.

[Kevin Lamoureux, Liberal, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]

Madam Speaker, the motion was a bit of a surprise, and we hope to see it carry on division.

The Conservatives seem to be focused on youth unemployment, something the Prime Minister and this government have been focused on. It is one of the reasons we brought forward an enhancement to the Red Seal program that is going to train 80,000 to 100,000 young people in getting Red Seals. The Conservative Party is voting against that. On the one hand, Conservatives talk about supporting young people, but when it comes time to vote, they vote against the young people of Canada.

Will the member clearly indicate that he supports the government's initiative to get more Red Seals and supports the federal program?

[Gabriel Hardy, Conservative, Montmorency—Charlevoix, QC]

Madam Speaker, it is quite something to hear the Liberals tell us in the House how much they want to move things forward, when, in every bill they introduce, they hide all sorts of provisions designed to create more bureaucracy and fewer tangible results on the ground.

What we are asking them to do is to take the current figures and move forward. They need to stop creating red tape and coming up with yet more redundant bureaucracy that just ends up keeping another person busy behind a computer. We need workers on the ground. That is what we are proposing.

[Claude DeBellefeuille, Bloc, Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent, QC]

Madam Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague a question about the need to reform EI. There are many inequalities, particularly in a riding such as his, where there are seasonal jobs, although it is worth noting that it is the jobs that are seasonal, not the workers.

Does my colleague not think it is high time to modernize the EI system, as the government has repeatedly promised to do since 2015, so that it better reflects the realities of today's labour market? There are still many inequities in the system. Pregnant women who lose their jobs while on maternity leave can find themselves without access to EI benefits. Young people and workers in seasonal jobs also continue to face significant gaps in coverage. What does my colleague think of this idea of reforming EI?

[Gabriel Hardy, Conservative, Montmorency—Charlevoix, QC]

Madam Speaker, that is an excellent question. We propose reconnecting with the realities on the ground, meeting directly with people, talking about their needs and implementing measures that help ordinary people. We want measures that are responsive to workers' needs. We want to get as many people as possible into the workforce. We want measures that allow us to help them and ensure that, particularly in the regions, there are as many local jobs as possible and that we support our businesses. I definitely think this is something we should look into.

[Anna Roberts, Conservative, King—Vaughan, ON]

Madam Speaker, last week, we spent some time at the North York food bank, and one of the statistics that shocked all of us was that 57% of postgraduate students use the food bank. What is the reason? It is because they cannot find a job.

My colleague from Winnipeg North toots his horn about his government's progress, but it is not happening. There are not enough jobs for young people, and they are losing hope in the government.

Can my hon. colleague please tell us how we can fix that? I ask because I know that our Conservative plan is ahead of the game.

[Gabriel Hardy, Conservative, Montmorency—Charlevoix, QC]

Madam Speaker, what a great question. As I mentioned, young people are looking for work. Businesses across the country are losing customers.

I hear the Prime Minister telling us that Canada has moved on from its relationship with the United States, that we have moved on to other things and that this is all behind us now. However, I think that there are a lot of businesses across the country that have not moved on and that would really like the government to resolve the situation with the Americans, help our businesses stay afloat, keep jobs in Canada and help our market grow.

I think that we have everything we need here to develop our resources and help Canadians prosper, but perhaps the government should get out of the way so that jobs across the country can grow and businesses can succeed.

[Kevin Lamoureux, Liberal, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]

Madam Speaker, it is interesting to stand here as we get back to the House. We have very substantive pieces of legislation today. We are going to be debating something critically important to Canada's military. We are also going to be debating the issue of affordability and tax breaks for Canadians. It is a very substantive legislative agenda that the government is proposing to the House of Commons, yet the official opposition continues to want to play games.

We recognize the importance of youth unemployment. We recognize the importance of a job to Canadians, yet what we see is the Conservative Party wanting to introduce concurrence motions. There are literally hundreds of motions the Conservative Party could introduce every day for the next year and a half to play this game to prevent substantive debate on government legislation that is there to support Canadians in every region of the country.

When we think of youth unemployment, we would love to see it lowered. I was upset back in 2012 when it was higher than what it is today, when the economy was doing better under Stephen Harper and when the leader of the Conservative Party sat around the cabinet table. It was well above 14%. Whether it was back in 2012 with Stephen Harper or today, I can assure members opposite that every Liberal member of caucus has been concerned about youth unemployment, and we are concerned about unemployment in general. This Prime Minister, this government and the ministries have been able to look beyond the opposition's political games and stay focused on the agenda for Canadians and on an economy that works for all Canadians.

This is why, when we put aside the partisanship coming from the Conservative Party day in and day out, no matter what, what we find is the actual unemployment numbers. If we look at the number of jobs since the Prime Minister has held that chair, we see that have had a net increase of tens of thousands of jobs. It has been well over 100,000 jobs since our Prime Minister took on that responsibility. This is even at a time when our economy is being challenged by actions that are taking place in the United States by President Trump, whether it is with trade or tariffs. It is because, as a government, we are focused on expanding our economy to go beyond the Canada-U.S.A. border. It is one of the reasons, as we are talking about youth unemployment, that we came up with a Red Seal program that is going to see 80,000 to 100,000 Red Seal certificates being issued. This is something the Conservative Party of Canada opposes.

I am suggesting that it is time we get on to the legislative agenda of the government. The Conservatives should stop playing games. They get opposition days. They know they have opposition days.

I therefore move:

That the debate be now adjourned.

[The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès), Alexandra Mendes]

If a member participating in person wishes that the motion be carried or carried on division, or if a member of a recognized party participating in person wishes to request a recorded division, I would invite them to rise and indicate it to the Chair.

[An hon. member]

On division.