Finance committee  Certainly, we were active with our partners in HRSDC in designing and implementing many of those work sharing programs. That was very important. Our view would be to again expand and extend those measures. The capital cost allowance is a modest positive stimulus to business spend

Finance committee  Madam, I would not dispute for a moment the fact that most new jobs created are full-time jobs—

Finance committee  I would have to look at the chart and look at the starting point of the chart and the end point of the chart. I could gladly give my take on the numbers and submit that.

Finance committee  I certainly did look at the budget, Madam, but I didn't memorize every graph in the entire budget, nor the statistical forces—

Finance committee  —I would be glad to look at that—

Finance committee  —that underlie them, so—

Finance committee  Most—

Finance committee  I believe fervently in trade as a source of job creation. The exports of Canada's economy are essential to the jobs that are supported in them. Unfortunately, the trade agreements have not actually promoted our trade. Exports as a share of our GDP have declined substantially over

Finance committee  I'd be glad to submit that to the clerk following the meeting.

Finance committee  Everything. All goods and services, including resources—

Finance committee  No, it isn't. I'll show you the data. Our trade is falling. Actually, in absolute terms, our trade is lower in quantity than it was five years ago, and as a share of GDP it's significantly—

Finance committee  Certainly, and I'd be prepared to provide additional empirical evidence for that, because I am not prepared with that right now. The dimensions of the quality of work would include part-time work, especially for those who desire full-time work. The table I put out indicates the

Finance committee  Thank you, sir. I'm not familiar with that particular citation. It's certainly the case that by most of the measures of job quality—and that would include part-time versus full-time, permanent versus temporary, and measures of the utilization of your skills—the quality of work h

Finance committee  At least in terms of how those changes were motivated and justified in the discourse that accompanied that announcement, they are very much rooted in the assumption that there is some kind of shortage...that jobs are going unfilled, and that some of the measures in the EI reforms

Finance committee  I would judge that the general fiscal stance of this proposed budget is definitely contractionary. The reduction in the overall level of government spending is going to have a contractionary effect on the overall spending in the economy. Then, of course, the specific departmental