Finance committee  As others have suggested, we're starting to run out of summer. In terms of time for students to get into these positions, there are limits on what we can do now. I can't speak to individual employment issues across countless positions. I have no doubt that there are some, but I

Finance committee  Yes. I think the government can encourage volunteering all it wants. I think a program of this type, in which it mandates it in exchange for compensation and ties it to hours, is deeply flawed, and that the way this program can be salvaged will not be through continuing with thes

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  No, I can handle the rough play here. Just to clarify, my concerns with this program, those that I've spoken about today, are about deep, fundamental structural flaws with the program that go beyond whether WE was involved in it or not. These are what I've tried to focus on tod

Finance committee  Thank you for clarifying that.

Finance committee  Well, it looks as if your staffers have scrolled carefully through my Twitter. I didn't—

Finance committee  Maybe I could go back and find some of my tweets about this point, but in the past weeks I've spoken with a number of journalists about this. I was very happy to take the opportunity to participate here. I've talked with colleagues and others. I'm also a very busy lawyer who has

Finance committee  I'm here now for the questions you have, sir.

Finance committee  I think you hit the nail on the head; it's a mess. As I mentioned a bit earlier, there are older cases involving volunteer misclassification. I'm aware of some arbitration cases from maybe 10 years back where a company tried to get its employees or outside individuals to volunte

Finance committee  I actually was surprised by the carelessness in some of the government's communications regarding this program. If you look at the announcement that was put out on June 25, it did talk about, you know, their getting a.... I don't have the exact words, but it did seem to talk abou

Finance committee  No—

Finance committee  —but it was clear that it was because students were doing this to get the money and because there was a crisis for jobs and financial security for students happening right now. Students who did it would be doing it to get $5,000, so that's—

Finance committee  Yes. Thank you.

Finance committee  Sorry. The question is about programs that pay—

Finance committee  Yes, some of the existing programs do that. They'll provide subsidies to the not-for-profits and charities for the full value of those young workers' wages in order to hire them as employees.