Finance committee  Yes, I believe students should have been provided support for paid work, and, if support were going to be given to the charitable sector, a different approach should have been taken. From what I can see and from what I've heard from folks in the sector, this was not what they wer

Finance committee  I was not consulted by the government. I'm not aware of anyone who was. If I had been consulted, I would have raised these very serious concerns about the impropriety of this sort of arrangement.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I had about two minutes of statements put to me. I never had an opportunity to respond to them before you turned to another speaker. Can I have an opportunity to respond to the various assertions that were put to me?

Finance committee  Thank you. There was a suggestion that there's a difference of opinion with respect to the payment of volunteers. First, if I were allocating a $900-million program, I wouldn't want to be resting on a difference of opinion as to its legality. When we're talking about this differ

Finance committee  Yes, of course.

Finance committee  I am aware of those programs, and I'm aware that students were initially excluded from CERB, and that might have contributed to the rush in having to put this together.

Finance committee  Will do. I'm sorry about that. As I was saying, the program itself is seemingly at odds with the government's own efforts to crack down on the exploitation of workers through unpaid internships, including in regard to the standards for work-integrated learning activities regulat

Finance committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My remarks are focused on concerns that the Canada student service grant raises regarding potential volunteer misclassification and the exploitation of students and recent graduates. I