Mr. Speaker, in 2014, ICI par les arts, an organization in Rivière-du-Nord, applied for a grant through the skills link program.
After being approved at the regional level, the project was blocked by Employment and Social Development Canada. Why? We still have no idea.
The organization is nearly bankrupt. Young people are left to their own devices on the streets. However, we just learned that the minister had a leeway of $30 million for his youth employment strategy that he failed to spend. I wrote to the minister to ask why the project had been blocked.
I am asking him now: why did the project from ICI par les arts get blocked by his own department?