sentences:  Later that year in a speech in the House of Commons on April 15, 1939, Poole criticized the Liberal and Conservative parties for failing to create employment.He proposed a 50-year plan to pay off the national debt and create mass employment by hiring out-of-work Canadians to reforest all the vacant and deforested land in Canada.Poole served a single term in opposition before retiring from federal politics in 1940.