It's the last day of 2013 and political leaders are looking back at what's happened over the past year.   

Member of Parliament for Souris-Moose Mountain Ed Komarnicki shares his "2013 Year in Review":  

It has been a remarkably good year with respect to jobs, growth, and economic prosperity and notwithstanding the tumult in the Senate and its reverberations in the House of Commons, we have much to be thankful for in Canada.  

Canada’s overall job growth record since the depth of the global recession is the best among all G7 countries, with over 1 million net new jobs created (nearly 90% of them full time, and more than 80% in the private sector).  
 
Economic Action Plan 2013 provided tax breaks to help small businesses create more jobs, the Canada Job Grant to help get more Canadians trained and into skilled jobs, and the largest ever federal investment in job creating infrastructure.  

Small business taxes have been reduced and the government has committed to a one-for-one rule where regulators or legislators will have to remove a legislative or administrative burden each time a new or amended regulation with an administrative burden is put in place.  

Overall, $70 billion in federal infrastructure funding will be provided for provincial, territorial and municipal infrastructure over the next 10 years, the largest long-term federal commitment to infrastructure in our nation’s history. This is something that all municipalities have been calling for.  

The Gas Tax Fund, consisting of $21.8 billion has been extended, doubled, indexed, and made permanent. It offers stable, predictable funding to support community infrastructure projects.  

Our unemployment rate is at its lowest level and is significantly lower than that of the USA.  

The budget made provisions to close tax loopholes, address aggressive tax planning, reduce international tax avoidance and tax evasion, and improve tax fairness. Significant steps have been taken to cut government operating costs and to transform to a more productive and efficient government work force. Canada is in the best fiscal position in the G7 and remains well on track to return to a balanced budget in 2015-16, or sooner. At the same time, we are keeping taxes low meaning more money is in the pockets of hard-working Canadians.  

Agriculture has seen proactive investments in innovation and research, and significant initiatives regarding the USA country of origin labelling.  

We have seen increased Canada Health Transfers to the Province of Saskatchewan of $978 million, a 41% overall increase since 2006, and $378 million in the Canada Social Transfer, a 26% overall increase since 2006.  

By entering into the Canada European Trade Agreement and on coming into force, many tariffs on grains, oils, and processed goods will be eliminated. We will be able to tap markets in 28 member EU states.  
 
A number of law and order pieces of legislation have been introduced or enacted in the last year, including legislation to keep children safe from online predators and from online exploitation. It will make it an offence to distribute intimate images without the consent of the person depicted. The Conservative government has also introduced or proposed a number of initiatives that keep the consumer and general public in mind.  

All of this is something Canadians want to see and can expect from a Conservative government. Let’s look forward to another exciting and productive year in 2014.