Thank you, Chair.
Good afternoon to my colleagues.
Thank you to our witnesses for coming in. I have just a few points for clarification.
My great colleague MP Chabot made a comment that the program was drastically cut. I would actually disagree with that. I don't think it was drastically cut at all. We returned the program to prepandemic levels. We increased the program during the pandemic to accommodate employers and students who needed help, and then we brought it back to prepandemic levels, which, for the record, is double what the previous Conservative government offered to students.
It's an amazing, wonderful program. We've hired just short of 3,000 students in my riding of Saint John—Rothesay and put $9 million into our economy through students.
I'm curious to hear from all three of you. I'd ask each of you to share how many students you hire and what percentage the Canada summer jobs program is of that number. Do you also have a provincial program through which you hire students?
Go ahead, Mr. Jones.