Mr. Speaker, given this new found interest in jobs perhaps I should remind the hon. member what his leader said in 1993. In Penticton, Reform leader Preston Manning said it would take up to three years before any job creation would occur under his party's economic plan.
In fact, he acknowledged that his zero in three plan could actually cost more jobs in the interim and then he went on when asked a further question he said: "What is the alternative?" The alternative was the government that was elected. It has seen the private sector create close to 700,000 new jobs. That is 700,000 more jobs than the Reform Party would have created.