Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here today.
I just wanted to revisit something you raised earlier around the discrimination that happens in employment in Canada and this opportunity to address that.
Based on the data that I have seen, the reduction in the postpandemic funding disproportionately hurt women, girls, indigenous youth and youth with disabilities. This is absolutely true in my riding, where a lot of the summer jobs opportunities are summer camps, which also affects women who are working and who need these summer camps. I can think specifically about one summer jobs application for which their funding was cut by half this year. Even though they maintained the 10% of my budget, their actual funding was cut in half.
I want to focus on the importance of this program for women and girls. Two-thirds of the participants are women and girls. I want to understand more. What job categories are they taking on? What is the wage gap between the genders and what is the tracking of these jobs?