Mr. Speaker, last summer we had the worst student summer jobs numbers in the history of the tracking of these numbers, going back to the 1970s.
The reality is that the minister is not doing enough to create long-term opportunities or even summer jobs for students. In the future budget, in just a few weeks, will the government introduce a hiring credit dedicated to young Canadians and significantly expand the summer job program, and will it reopen the summer job centres that it has closed? Will the government admit that we should be freezing EI rates in Canada instead of increasing them? They are a tax on jobs.