Mr. Richard Harris (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments of the member from the Bloc. I am a little confused about his lack of understanding of what we have been trying to do in the economic stimulus package. Surely he must know that this is the most massive stimulus package in political history. We need it to get through these very difficult challenges that have been coming to us from a global point of view.

As the member for Markham—Unionville pointed out earlier, Canada was the last one into the recession. It is because of the way that this government has been run by our current Prime Minister and the ministers. They have been watching the financial companies. The banks have been in good shape. Canada is going to be the first one out of this economic challenge as well, because of they way we have handled it.

We have made some significant changes to the EI program. We have made five week extensions for workers who are collecting. We have had a one year extension to the work plan. We are now introducing extensions again based on the tenure one has had with their employer, which will benefit employees all across the country. It will mean that tens of thousands will get assistance that they would not have received before.

These are all new measures that are being introduced by this Conservative government that were never dreamed of by the previous Liberals. We would appreciate it if the members opposite would recognize that. As far as the stimulus package goes, they have to understand that this government does not give out money in brown paper bags and cash like the Liberals did.

There is a lot of due diligence that goes into distributing these funds and it is done by the federal and provincial governments and the municipalities' regional districts. That all has to be done. It is being done and the money is flowing in amounts that will look after the challenges of the current global economic problems we have.