I'll try to do a bit of both.
The first piece is that we're looking at the fact that—it's not just about this pandemic—youth don't just simply leave school at the end of the spring term and come back in the fall anymore. They're changing the times at which they come back to school. They're taking gap years. They're juggling their schedules to start in different semesters. There's a lot more flexibility in post-secondary education.
We see a program designed around an older agrarian model that says you have the summer off and that's when your summer jobs happen, yet we're seeing employers saying there are opportunities that don't just happen in the summer. There are opportunities in lots of industries that happen year-round, and if we were able to offer these opportunities to youth at times that make sense for them and allow for them to save for education, in some cases, to take the time before they re-enter post-secondary education, then we'd have a program that better fits the realities of how youth think about work and how they think about education.
The idea around this, which came even pre-pandemic, is that this is a program that would better suit the needs of both employers and students these days. I think that's the first piece in rethinking this in terms of what would be a greater modernization of how the program works.
I can't speak as significantly around CERB, except to say that students, to my understanding, are not eligible, but they've been benefiting from the Canada emergency student benefit. That's been okay but not adequate, because we're seeing a huge demand for students to go into savings mode through the summer months, and the living expenses, tuition expenses, when you add all of them up, you have a lot of youth who aren't pulling in the same incomes either from jobs or from these benefits that they might have done if they had full-time employment or opportunities around that. We're seeing that it's not significant enough to give youth the opportunities they're looking for from those benefits.
I have to admit I don't have any more details on access or lack of access except that students are saying it's not enough for them.