Denise Savoie
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IN THE HOUSE: On Funding for Student Employment
Mr. Speaker, students are only asking for what is fair. We cannot force them to pay exorbitant tuition fees, causing them run up record debt, and take away their summer employment. The summer career placements program needs more, better-targeted funds—not a 50% cut. Applications from employers are already a month late and these cuts put hundreds of jobs across the country at risk.
When will the government admit its mistake and restore the funding for student employment?
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Mr. Speaker, all we ever hear is “stay tuned”. Meanwhile, the government is starving women's groups, adult literacy coalitions and now the non-profits, small businesses and summer camps that provide summer employment for students.
I heard last week that an inner city day came for immigrant and refugee children in Montreal is at risk of closing this summer.
In Victoria, it is programs at our NEED crisis line and women's transition house. Winnipeg, Hamilton and Vancouver are losing summer child care services.
Students in our communities just want some two-way accountability from the government. When will they get it?
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