The majority of funding for summer students comes from vacant positions in the Government of the Northwest Territories. As my colleague indicated in his line of questioning a couple of days ago, generally, rule of thumb, you're looking at about 10 per cent vacancy rate. So to take positions, possibly taken away from families, people that have jobs and have their own children, and convert them to summer student positions would not be seen as the ideal way to go. Over the years we've been very successful in hiring summer students. As I said, the maximum has been 341 and I wouldn't want to set a limit on how many summer students that we can hire.
Bob McLeod on Question 428-18(2): Summer Student Employment Opportunities
In the Legislative Assembly on October 31st, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 428-18(2): Summer Student Employment Opportunities
Oral Questions
October 30th, 2016
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