Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the member about the summer career placement program, a program that has been hugely important in my riding, as I am sure it has in hers. It is an excellent program for summer work for students and for community organizations running things like day camps and doing community economic development. In my riding almost 100% of the money went to non-profit organizations and small businesses to run that program. Now the Conservatives have cut the money by over 50% to student employment, which I think is outrageous.
The problem I have is that the scissors must have been warm because the Liberals tried to cut that program by 30% in many ridings in the last Parliament. Why did the Liberals warm up the scissors to cut the student employment program which has been so crucial in so many ridings in the country?