There are two things. Don't make it a summer program. Make it a Canada youth employment program and have it run. Young people want to work. We know that. Often when we look at young people, we're looking at the old south and sweatshops, but young people want to be out working. It's a great idea to give them opportunities to develop skills and help them in the ways some of the speakers have spoken about.
Part of an expanded summer employment program could also be understanding how this kind of work complements what they do at school, enabling them to see some connections between what they learn at school and what they learn at work, and to observe a skills transfer between the two. Maybe it would make school more meaningful for people who are also working if they could see how school connects to what they do in the workplace. Particularly in the case of students at risk, it may help them to see the value of being in school. That's often a really tricky thing, but there are real benefits to it.