Federal summer jobs program numbers up, but short of lofty Liberal goal
OTTAWA — The federal government says thousands of jobs for young Canadians didn’t materialize quite as the Liberals had expected under a marquee summer jobs program.
The government says that almost 66,000 jobs were created last year through the Canada Summer Jobs program.
That’s almost 32,000 more than what the previous Conservative government funded in 2015, but also about 11,000 short of the 77,000 threshold the Liberals said they were hoping to meet.
The 77,000 figure was one Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promoted at an event in Ottawa where the Liberals outlined how they were expanding the program because of increased demand for funds.