Unlike MP Fortier, I don't have post-secondary institutions in my riding, and this makes it difficult. We have seven high schools, and their students have to go outside the riding for higher education.
I want to focus on the federal student work experience program. You say in your brief that you recruited more than 7,000 students. Elsewhere in your presentation you say, under “Student Hiring”:
Young Canadians are interested in joining the federal public service. We know this because the number of applications we receive remains high. ...[We] received nearly 55,000 student employment applications and over 53,000 graduate recruitment applications.
Are those 55,000 student applications for the federal student work experience program?