Finance committee  Absolutely, and it would be really great to see that money flow and actually be used that way, because my understanding is that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and some individual cities have been saying, “The money that you promised us in 2013? Can we find out, please,

Finance committee  —up to $5,000 to cover costs. Why are young people unwilling to move? Well, they're either going on spec, they don't know about what jobs are out there. I gave my seven reasons to indicate that people don't know what jobs are out there. A lot of the labour market opinions that a

Finance committee  It's pretty awesome that the Conference Board of Canada and the CCPA are suggesting the same thing—

Finance committee  It's pretty straight up. You're spending the money; you can call the tunes. If you want to actually use that money to be a community benefit and bring more kids up to speed through training, you can do it. It's your money.

Finance committee  Our money....

Finance committee  I think the TD report would probably do more justice than anything I could say in a couple of minutes. I wonder if you would permit me to address the issue of the competition with newcomers, both immigrant and temporary workers, and older workers all competing for the same entr

Finance committee  I don't see why, if we can afford billions of dollars in promised tax cuts, we can't find a few hundred million dollars to expand summer job programs for Canadians and help the subsidiary levels of government, as I mentioned, to actually finance young people to do jobs that need

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. It's been said a couple of times that there is no story. There is nothing to look at here because young people aren't as unemployed as they were in the 1980s. I was caught in the 1980s unemployment and I know how bad it was. What is different this

Finance committee  Yes. It's very difficult to target jobs for young people when you have such sluggish growth. Our pace of job creation is very slow, which is why the Bank of Canada governor here and Janet Yellen in the United States have focused on slow growth as the number one concern if you're

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the committee very much for inviting me to address you on this issue. I'm thrilled that this particular committee is looking at youth unemployment, as this has been a jobless recovery for the young and the situation has actually deteriorated over

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Absolutely. I think you're completely correct to say that any pre-budget consultation should be open to discuss anything that the people of Canada want to see in the next federal budget, and that is appropriate. But when you put out a 308-page document with over 420 clauses,

Finance committee  You're not going to amend individual—

Finance committee  It's true, but what I did—

Finance committee  True, it's a—