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Government Dept: In the speech in Ottawa, Harper said his government is working hard to fulfill the economic promises made during the May 2011 election with one clear objective -- creating jobs and growth, according to CTV. Harper said nearly 700,000 net jobs have been created in Canada since the depths of the recession in 2008 and said "while most other developed countries sputter well below pre-recession numbers, more Canadians are working now than ever before." On the one-year anniversary of the Conservatives achieving a majority government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulated his MPs on a job well done but made it clear the fragile economy remains priority number one. " Canadians gave us a mandate to secure their prosperity and this, my friends, we are doing. We are doing it every day, everywhere and in every way in which we can," Harper said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.