Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
To our witnesses, thank you for your presentations.
I'd like to follow up on the issue around Canada summer jobs. I mean, part of the problem, as in my own riding, is that it's consistent every year that the dollars are deficient in funding all of the applications. In fact, this year only about a third of the applicants actually got funding, and it's not 100% funding by any stretch of the imagination. The government also asked us to identify additional groups for them that were tied to COVID. We made our recommendation, we phoned around and contacted everybody, and still, as it stands right now, barely any of those organizations that I submitted got funding at all. Hence, we have a situation where there's a lot of hype about it, but the reality is that there are not a lot of resources to support the groups. This has been an ongoing problem for as long as I've been a member of Parliament.
Mr. Charters, I'm particularly interested in the notion of doing a year-round program. Aside from creating flexibility and stability for organizations, there's the perspective of the kinds of resources that would be required. I wonder if you could speak to what kinds of granting resources we would need to see for this program to be effective in that way.