There was an announcement in budget 2009 whereby the government was concerned about the ability of young people to get work during the summer, so they put in a program to supplement the money the departments were already providing or putting forward to hire students. The Privy Council Office allocated a certain amount of money. We originally got $41,000, which was in addition to the people we were already hiring. There were some departments that declined a certain amount of that money, so there was some left. We got another $7,000. In fact, in PCO this year, we have hired 57 students instead of 47 students, and the expenditure is at around $50,000 or $55,000.
On November 19th, 2009. See this statement in context.