Yes...in some ways. I'll just explain how our membership would be involved with the recruitment process, which might involve employers leveraging the program.
Many colleges, polytechnics and universities across this country have job boards that are available to their students and have a close-knit relationship with employers and industry partners who are recruiting students from those academic institutions.
In the scenarios where employers are looking to access the wage subsidy through this program, they may very well also be recruiting through the academic institution. Similarly, students would be accessing their career services department to connect with employers who are actively seeking in the summertime, and the feedback that they receive would be through just the regular conversations that an institution has with their employer base who are using the services at the school.
In the context of work-integrated learning, one of the recommendations that we're offering is around quality work experiences. It's our belief in CEWIL that having structure around a work experience and having educational elements and facilitated learning that is in the spirit of the relationship between a higher education institution, the student and the employer, tends to yield the highest return on skills acquisition and growth and development through a student cohort. This is obviously what we work towards and champion at CEWIL.
It's not to say that summer jobs or part-time jobs that don't have that academic structure and support can't be meaningful. They absolutely can. We just know that, when there are supports, there's an educational environment and the post-secondary institution is involved, those are the ones where we can have thoughtfully structured, meaningful, high-quality work experiences for our learners and students, and for the employers as well.