Human Resources committee  I think the applicant would have submitted an application form under the summer career placement and the decisions were made on a combination of the information that was submitted through that application as well as local input from the members of Parliament.

Human Resources committee  The department is responsible for the administration of the program, so the decisions with respect to who was receiving funding and who was not were decisions that were taken, ultimately, by the department.

Human Resources committee  It was not made public by the department.

Human Resources committee  No, Mr. Lake, that would not.

Human Resources committee  I could tell you that the department would have applied the same criteria. How the members of Parliament were acting I think is really not a question that's appropriate for me.

Human Resources committee  It's hard to respond on the specifics without seeing the application, but I think on of the things we've been reminded of is that when introducing a new program, particularly a program that applies to the not-for-profit sector, which is so broad across the country, we have an ext

Human Resources committee  There are two things that I would say. Programs like this are almost always oversubscribed. It's true that last year we had 39,000 applications, and as I said to you, there were about 10,000 organizations that didn't receive funding. That's not to say that they weren't good organ

Human Resources committee  If it would be helpful to Ms. Dhalla.

Human Resources committee  When I was answering Ms. Dhalla's question, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. There is a difference between how a department communicates with a member of Parliament one to one--and there are certain provisions within the Privacy Act to allow that--as opposed to releasing a list pub

Human Resources committee  I'm not suggesting that those other companies are not good organizations.

Human Resources committee  We had a first round of funding decisions that were taken and were communicated at the end of April and early May. As a result of that, we heard, from quite a number of organizations that had previously received funding under the summer career placement program, but who didn't ha

Human Resources committee  For organizations that were eligible under the Canada summer jobs program—so they had submitted an eligible application—who had benefited in the past in the not-for-profit or public sector, and who in response to calls from us indicated that they had not identified alternative so

Human Resources committee  On the denials question, there is a difference between Service Canada and the department's sharing of information with a member of Parliament in the kind of dynamic that you described, and our tabling information publicly. Members of Parliament have different protections under th

Human Resources committee  Thank you for raising that, because I think I've heard the reference to privacy and lists a couple of times. In my response to Madame Lafrance and your motion, I think there were two parts to the motion that I tried to respond to. The first one was with respect to organizations

Human Resources committee  Ms. Dhalla, I feel quite uncomfortable with the allegation that the department is engaged in petty politics.