What I'm about to explain to you is how we allocated the budget, which is what I think lies at the heart of some of the committee's recommendations.
There are two choices about how you would allocate a budget. You would try to do it on the basis of a formula that would take into consideration a number of different factors. The committee has indicated that rurality was one of them, and economic disadvantage. There were other members of Parliament who have talked to us in the past about the challenges of trying to find summer employment in areas of high crime. So the question is always to try to find the balance between all of those different factors. You try to do it ex ante, before you see the proposals.
What the government chose to do in this case was to put in place an allocation formula that allocated funding on a provincial-territorial basis for the not-for-profit sector, a national basis for the public and private sector, and then had a set of criteria that tried to rank proposals against the policy objectives, which include the economic conditions within an area but also the nature of the job that was going to be offered to the student, as well as the kind of barriers a student might face in getting a position. All of those factors were taken into consideration among the criteria.
So there is a choice. The government made a choice in terms of how it allocated the budget, and I expect if you wanted to talk a bit more about why that choice was made, the minister would be in a better position than I to talk about it.