Finance committee  What would be wrong with making it cheaper to get a post-secondary education, rather than having people pay more? You can talk about debt and borrowing money, but if the goal is a knowledge society, and you want kids to have the best education possible...? Education isn't the sol

Finance committee  I guess there would be a reason to say why would we give them money, but why doesn't it feel that way when you give money to businesses and subsidize them? Why do young people get no breaks?

Finance committee  Wage subsidies, that's another thing that can be done, and tax breaks.

Finance committee  Look, you know who creates jobs, Mr. Saxton? Consumers create jobs. Businesses can't create jobs unless somebody's buying what they are making. If you have too many people who are unemployed, nobody's buying enough stuff, so in fact it's the consumer who makes jobs.

Finance committee  You're looking at me. Are you asking me?

Finance committee  Okay. Yes, absolutely. That's been documented over and over again, and talked about. Again, we don't have official statistics as to who are unpaid interns, how frequently this occurs, in what industries it occurs, but we know it's happening and we know a lot of kids can't afford

Finance committee  In our 2014 version of the alternative federal budget, a participatory budgeting process that the CCPA provides the secretariat, there is a chapter on aboriginal youth—I would really recommend it and I can certainly provide it to the clerk of the committee—dealing with things you

Finance committee  I don't know the extent to which IBAs—they are benefit agreements that are negotiated with the first nation community in question and the company.... The bargaining power is often not native, if you will. So there's a lot of education to be done there too. We're dealing with Davi

Finance committee  I guess you could determine that, but if young people don't know.... The national jobs board has the advantage of being available to any young person anywhere in the country. They can see where the job opportunities are.

Finance committee  Thank you for your question, M. Dubé. I think we have been talking a lot about, as I mentioned in my presentation, the supply side of it, even rectifying market failures in terms of information. Then we've been talking about what people can do to make themselves more employable

Finance committee  I'd be happy to do so. The numbers come from The Hill Times report that was released yesterday. There was a whole policy issue on youth that was released yesterday in The Hill Times. I wrote to the reporter and asked him where he got his numbers from. He sent me the files that

Finance committee  Employment and Social Development Canada is your government.

Finance committee  I'm just telling you where I got the numbers and what I was quoting.

Finance committee  As far as I know, actually, Statistics Canada does not measure on an annual basis student debt. So I might be incorrect, but I think ESDC is the source of it.

Finance committee  That's fair.