I remember April 8 well. It's the day we announced our Canada summer jobs flexibilities and what we were going to do to change the program to respond to the pandemic. But we knew, and I even foreshadowed, that we had to do more. I spoke with student groups, I spoke with a lot of young people, student organizations; we all heard that it wasn't just about more jobs, it was about income support, it was about opportunities to give back to their communities, and what we were going to do in the fall around Canada student loans and student grants. Literally, we all dug in, and it wasn't just myself and the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth, it was all of us. It was Minister Miller looking at how we could help indigenous students and Minister Bains looking at how we can help post-doctoral fellows. Really we all just dug in and came up with a really big package.
On August 11th, 2020. See this statement in context.