Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  The duration is for 12 months. They're paid completely, whether they're working physically for us or at the not-for-profit.

Finance committee  The pay is commensurate with market compensation rates for the roles that they do in the branch. I can't disclose the amount, because our privacy policy would not permit me to do that, but it is very market-fair. Also, because they're contract employees it addresses the fact th

Finance committee  I'm nodding because I believe it goes back to the point you originally made about payment being important—about honourable work and being paid for it. For some organizations, this might be the best way they can access funding to give that experience. Whereas we can do it through

Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  I don't have that level of detail, Mr. Brison. What I know is that certainly all of our internships would be paid. That is our policy, and that is how we administer it and live it every day. We could find out for you what the other organizations do. But I agree completely with y

Finance committee  Yes, I could address that, certainly. As another example of what you mentioned, we also offer work experience like that in disadvantaged communities. Perhaps not quite in the school, but the school relationship does exist. I would echo some of the conversation around the tabl

Finance committee  We are beginning to share the program design. Since it's just started, we wanted to get our feet under us, but absolutely we're sharing with partner organizations and seeing how we can help support and have a roll-on effect from the 100 that we're starting with ourselves.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Well, currently this particular program or indeed any of our internships are self-funded within the organization. They're paid out of the corporate citizenship budgets that we have. We're not participating or requesting funding from any government sources.

Finance committee  It's not my area of expertise, but I would say that predominantly we have managed those experiences through our own funding and our own budgets.

Finance committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the finance committee. Thank you so much for inviting me to appear before this committee on youth employment. I'd like to begin my presentation by sharing three key findings from an August 2013 Ipsos Reid poll of recent