Brothers and sisters, the key point that I want to leave with you is that we as a labour movement can and will respond to the jobs crisis. We must develop our own ideas, and take them to the rank and file and to our communities. We must press those ideas with the federal and provincial governments as a major part of our agenda for political action.

That is precisely what we at the Canadian Labour Congress will be doing in the next few months, in the lead-in to the next federal election.

Thank you very much.