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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-09-16 18:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Garnett Genuis",
"fr": "Garnett Genuis"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8872664\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary presented government subsidy through the Canada summer jobs program as the solution to this youth unemployment crisis, but let us talk about some numbers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8872665\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canada has over two million post-secondary students. The jobs numbers from Statistics Canada show that about one in five returning students was unemployed this summer, so we are talking about probably more than 400,000 students. The government's response is to say that it proposes to subsidize 6,000 new positions. Many of those positions are actually for eight weeks, so we are talking about a problem, for returning students alone, of over 400,000 positions, and its response is a public subsidy for 6,000 positions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8872666\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think these numbers underline that we cannot subsidize our way out of a bad economy. The government needs to fix the underlying problems.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8872664\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, la secr\u00e9taire parlementaire a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 les subventions gouvernementales accord\u00e9es dans le cadre du programme Emplois d'\u00e9t\u00e9 Canada comme la solution \u00e0 la crise du ch\u00f4mage chez les jeunes, mais soulignons quelques chiffres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8872665\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Canada compte plus de 2 millions d'\u00e9tudiants de niveau postsecondaire. Les donn\u00e9es sur l'emploi de Statistique Canada montrent qu'environ un \u00e9tudiant sur cinq retournant aux \u00e9tudes \u00e9tait au ch\u00f4mage cet \u00e9t\u00e9, ce qui repr\u00e9sente probablement plus de 400 000 \u00e9tudiants. La r\u00e9ponse du gouvernement est d'annoncer qu'il propose de subventionner 6 000 nouveaux postes. Bon nombre de ces postes sont, en fait, des emplois d'une dur\u00e9e de huit semaines. Nous parlons donc d'un probl\u00e8me de plus de 400 000 postes, uniquement pour les \u00e9tudiants retournant aux \u00e9tudes, et la r\u00e9ponse du gouvernement est d'utiliser les deniers publics pour subventionner 6 000 postes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8872666\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pense que ces chiffres prouvent que nous ne pouvons pas nous sortir d'une mauvaise \u00e9conomie au moyen de subventions. Le gouvernement doit r\u00e9gler les probl\u00e8mes sous-jacents.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/9/16/garnett-genuis-19/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/garnett-genuis/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4383/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13119779",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Employment",
"fr": "L'emploi"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/9/16/",
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}
}