Madam Speaker, I appreciate the welcome extended to me by my honourable Liberal colleague.
I rise today and am going to begin my remarks by addressing the issues that matter to Canadians. It is unfortunate that the Liberal motion fails to do that.
The motion says nothing about jobs. Why is that? It is because the government, through its economic action plan, has created 460,000 new jobs since the valley of the recession.
It says nothing about unemployment, and that is because our unemployment rate is two—