Madam Speaker, it is really incredible listening to the way the government talks about the youth unemployment crisis, because fundamentally it seems that it does not understand the task. The task is to address the youth unemployment rate. It is to address the fact that we have a high and climbing youth unemployment rate. It is to address the fact that youth employment is at one of its lowest points in decades. It is to address the real facts on the ground.
In response to these questions, the government never actually talks about the youth unemployment rate. It never points to success in terms of, in aggregate, getting more young people into work. It always wants us to be impressed by the amount of money it is spending, by the fact that it is continuing existing programs and by the fact that it has hopes and ambitions for things that it might do later on.
Can the member acknowledge that it is not working and that the youth unemployment rate is high and increasing, that their plans are not achieving the—