Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, committee members, for having me. My name is Owen Charters. I'm the president and CEO of BGC Canada. We've been known for many years as Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada. We now increasingly go by our acronym. My colleague with me is Gwendolyn Mo

Human Resources committee  That's quite a good question, because I think there have been critiques of the granting program from the start in terms of not just availability but also timeliness. There have been times where I think organizations.... I myself can recall applying for grants and getting calls on

Human Resources committee  I'm happy to talk about the fact that.... First of all, I think volunteering is fundamentally important. We are actually a founding member of Canada service corps. We firmly believe in the incentivizing of volunteering amongst young people. I think it becomes a lifelong value tha

Human Resources committee  The concept of the program is that there are more students who are now looking. There are so many students that the unemployment rate we've seen for students remains stubbornly high and is higher now during the pandemic. This is a program that, if we can continue it year-round an

Human Resources committee  In fact, as we've looked at the CESB, which is $1,250 a month to cover living expenses, it doesn't, in fact, cover a lot of living expenses as it currently stands. There is also the fact that students are usually employed not just to cover expenses but to earn an income that allo

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Ms. Chabot. If the program is replaced by a year-round program, from January to December, another call for funding applications must be issued. Our third recommendation is about that. We ran a program in the spring, and I think it needs to be renewed in the fall for o

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Long. That's a great question, and it's great to acknowledge Amy Shanks, who does wonderful work, as you say, in Saint John and keeps our feet to the fire, as well, in our national team to make sure that they get what they need from us. I would say that with regar

Human Resources committee  There is a proposal put in originally by Imagine Canada—and I think it's still on the table with ESDC—that looks at a grant-based program that looks at losses and I think allows charities, especially charities and non-profits, to calculate.... If you think more about their balanc

Human Resources committee  Yes. I think that's actually exactly the sort of flexibility we're looking for. I think we've seen that those investments, with the doubling in the funding, have been fantastic. It has worked. We see that many clubs—as employers—and many others are taking advantage of these posit

Human Resources committee  I'll try to do a bit of both. The first piece is that we're looking at the fact that—it's not just about this pandemic—youth don't just simply leave school at the end of the spring term and come back in the fall anymore. They're changing the times at which they come back to scho

Human Resources committee  There were definitely some clubs that received all of them. We had several who are used to receiving certain portions, or allocations I guess, of the summer jobs grant and then discovered that they had not all been approved. When they talked to their local MPs, they were given t

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Isaac. Mr. Chair, we will turn it over to you. Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be starting and then passing it over to Isaac, who will give a bit of his personal experience. Mr. Chair, honourable members and committee staff, thank you so much for the opportunity to speak to you today and to contribute to this conversation about h

Information & Ethics committee  We actually put it in our recommendations. We didn't pick a jurisdiction, but we said that we want the capacity for parental consent to be a requirement under the age of at least 13, with the right to be forgotten by the time you reach the age of majority. The combination of thos

Information & Ethics committee  It's a combination of the United States' COPPA and the European model.