I have a couple of points, to address Mr. Savage. The motion clearly says “amend the 2009 national budget for the Canada Summer Jobs initiative...”, not to get the money from somewhere else.
And if we're talking about the second paragraph--not the one I'm talking about--that would mean the budget would have to be amended annually to allow for increases and decreases in numbers of participants and the increases in minimum wages across the country. Of necessity, that would mean you have to amend the amount. If the number of students didn't decrease and the minimum wage went up, you need to amend your budget accordingly. In effect that would be a confidence measure, if we're talking about the 2009 budget, which he is in his motion.
So as I say, you have two problems. If you're going that way, you're amending the amount of the budget. If you're not going that way, you have some problems because you're limiting the pool of applicants. Either way, it's a bad motion.