Mr. Speaker, in the last two and a half weeks tens of thousands of young Canadians have left colleges, universities, technical schools and other institutions across the country looking for summer work. A lot of them depend on the federally sponsored summer study work projects. However, one problem is that the moneys have not been allocated. Many of the programs are supposed to start today and many started last week, but no funds have been allocated, at least in the western part of Canada.
Could the parliamentary secretary explain why these funds are so late in coming? When will the funds be allocated?