Finance committee  In 2006, $55 million was cut from the Canada summer jobs program. At that point the program created somewhere between 45,000 and 55,000 summer job opportunities for students, whereas in more recent estimates it appears that it's about 35,000 to 40,000. With an increasing youth po

Finance committee  It's in the funding here somewhere.

Finance committee  I would hope so. I think that if people are performing employment that is typically paid, then they should be paid for it, and also they should be covered under workers' rights legislation. And so I'd hope that Canadians would be supportive. I think that they would.

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely; our education is becoming more and more unaffordable for students, which means that a lot of people either can't afford to go to university, or if they are able to, aren't able to have the same opportunities as other students, for example, being able to take on u

Finance committee  With respect to unpaid internships specifically?

Finance committee  It's a big question. One of the things that I talked about as one of my recommendations was actually gathering the data so we can figure out where we should be most concerned and how to address that. Unpaid internships, I think, are a really big issue. The problem in Ontario,

Finance committee  I think it's as you mentioned. Students are going into more and more debt, and just the way the economy is, it seems as though for many of the jobs you need to take on an unpaid internship in order to gain any sort of footing. At U of T we have some good examples of paid intern

Finance committee  Yes, young women, but I think the issue of unpaid internships tends.... I think it further marginalizes anyone who is of a lower income, because, as was mentioned, if you can't afford to take on unpaid employment, than you don't have the same opportunities to network.

Finance committee  Yes. We went into some of the federally regulated industries that are covered under the Canada Labour Code—banks, telecoms, TV and radio broadcasters, federal crown corporations, and air transport companies. I believe the example Ms. Seaborn had pointed out to earlier—Andrew Ferg

Finance committee  This is a very recent change. I think it's a really good start to ensure that interns have the same rights in terms of workplace safety. But what we'd like to further see from the Ontario government is that they're actually proactively looking into instances of unpaid internships

Finance committee  Good afternoon. My name is Yolen. I'm the vice-president equity and president-elect of the University of Toronto Students' Union. I, like most students at the University of Toronto and our peers across the country, opted to pursue higher education in the belief that our initiativ