Okay.
I want to talk about a few things. First of all, the first time I saw the summer career placement program as a member of Parliament, I was very surprised that we would fund businesses to hire staff during their busy summer periods. As I looked at some of the organizations that got funding, I thought, these are organizations that would otherwise probably be paying for their employees anyway, and I thought it odd that we would fund some of them.
In the case of some of the organizations I saw, it made sense. They're not for profit, and it totally made sense that there might be some kind of program. But I don't think Canadians want to see tax dollars subsidizing private industry when it has said it would create jobs in any event. I just don't believe in that.
As I understand it, the new Canada summer jobs program maintains 100% of the funding for the not-for-profit sector jobs, the ones Mr. Savage says are so important, and I'm sure those are the ones that are funded in his riding. What we're saying is that the Government of Canada has no business subsidizing business for the purpose of hiring people they would otherwise hire anyway.
We have some examples. I look at a company like Safeway, for example—and these are just a few examples of many—receiving a total of $232,000 from this program, or a company like Wal-Mart receiving about $266,000 from this program. With what's been done by way of changes in it, the Canada summer jobs program now, I think, is going to be more accountable; it's going to support the not-for-profit sector; it basically has preserved all of the elements that Mr. Savage has talked about.