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

Finance committee  True, it's a—

Finance committee  Why? You are asking Canadians for their opinions on what should be in a budget and you could use that as a sounding board to say which things are financial, which are fiscal, and which budgetary. All these things could be treated differently at different committees.

Finance committee  Thank you.

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

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  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  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