Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to each of our witnesses for appearing before our committee today.
My first question is on summer jobs. In the last couple of years we've had some of the worst summer job numbers we've seen in about 40 years, yet the Canada summer jobs program, in the summer of 2013, created 36,000 jobs. Back in 2005 it created 78,000 jobs. The need is actually greater today, yet the Canada summer jobs program is creating fewer jobs.
Should we move as a committee and recommend to the government certainly to increase significantly the number of summer jobs created by the Canada summer jobs program?