Thank you very much for the question.
I think the point I would share, having seen the recruitment cycles of post-secondary students by employers, is that they are doing it earlier and earlier than history has shown us. If you're an employer and you require funding support in order to hire a youth or a student, you need to know as early as possible that you're eligible for the funding to be able to engage in a competitive recruitment process.
Many students are securing summer work, or their co-ops or their work-integrated learning, as early as January or February, and some employers are actually looking to push it further back to get ahead of their recruitment cycles. It's not to say that's the lived experience of every employer, but there are many that are recruiting that early.
If we wanted to make sure that the funding of the program enables the employers who are eligible for it to recruit and seek top talent in a competitive way, if they are informed earlier that they are eligible for the funding, that would be a big help.