Madam Speaker, I miss that member. I am happy to see him again.
As he knows, the foundations of our economy remain strong. I will repeat them. Foreign direct investment is at a 23-year high. Interest rates remain low. Inflation remains in the Bank of Canada window. Manufacturing numbers are up. Productivity, which has been the boat anchor around our economy for years, is trending in the right direction. Hot off the press is that unemployment is going down. The economy just posted 88,000 jobs.
Today, in his riding, as in mine and everybody's in this room, Canadians are getting the groceries and essentials benefit.