Federal Government and Exact Breakdown

Syrian refugees: Among the hires are a number of newly arrived Syrian refugees, aboriginals, and youth with disabilities, although the exact breakdown of those figures is not immediately available, according to Brandon Sun. The government had pledged in the budget to add $339 million over three years to the summer jobs program to double the number of placements each year for students working at not-for-profit organizations, public sector employers and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees. The federal government says it has approved more than 7,000 additional jobs for the Canada Summer Jobs program on top of the 70,000 planned for 2016. Applications from small businesses to hire summer students through the government program was up almost one-third from last year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released the figures Thursday at the Children Hospital of Eastern Ontario, which plans to hire 20 students to help with its research wing. In all, there will be 13,373 students working at small businesses this summer, a four-fold increase from last year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.