Irek Kusmierczyk

$2.2 million Canada Summer Jobs investment creates 532 jobs for youth in Windsor-Tecumseh

May 5, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on all Canadians, but especially on young Canadians. That is why the Government of Canada continues to make historic investments to ensure that youth have the supports and opportunities they need to build long and successful careers.

Today, Irek Kusmierczyk, Member of Parliament for Windsor―Tecumseh, announced a record $2.2 million Canada Summer Jobs investment, creating 532 job opportunities for youth across 96 different local organizations in Windsor-Tecumseh. All opportunities for youth are now available at www.jobbank.gc.ca/youth.

100 opportunities will be available with the City of Windsor, 57 with the Town of Tecumseh, and hundreds others with organizations across the arts, bookstores, medical, the skilled trades, and not-for-profit sector. Examples of funded organizations include the Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor, Bike Windsor-Essex, Assisted Living Southwestern Ontario, Windsor Essex Hospice, Home Instead Senior Care, among others.

This year’s record-breaking number of job opportunities will help young Canadians discover different careers, gain meaningful experiences, and save up for school. In response to the ongoing pandemic, the Government is also giving employers the flexibilities to hire youth to work on a full-time or part-time basis, as well as beyond the summer months, with some placements extending to February 2022.

Supporting youth and ensuring their participation in all aspects of the economic recovery takes a collaborative and government-wide approach. Through Budget 2021, the Government is proposing to invest an additional $5.7 billion over the next five years to help young Canadians pursue and complete their education, acquire new skills and access more work opportunities. This is on top of the $7.4 billion already invested in young Canadians during the pandemic. Thousands more young Canadians will be able to benefit from the following historic Government actions:

30,600 new job placements through the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy in 2021–22;
220,000 job placements through Canada Summer Jobs over the program’s 2021 and 2022 seasons;
50,000 work-integrated learning placements through the Student Work Placement Program in 2021–22;
at least 85,000 work-integrated learning placements through Mitacs over the next five years starting in 2021–22; and
28,000 training and work opportunities for young Canadians through the Canada Digital Technology Adoption program in 2021–22.

Taken together, the Government of Canada’s response to the current crisis represents one of the largest youth support packages in the world.

Quotes

“This past year, young people all over Canada have been navigating a very challenging path due to the COVID-19 crisis, including youth in Windsor-Essex. With this record-setting number of job opportunities, the Canada Summer Jobs program will be there to help youth secure good jobs and gain important work experience. I strongly encourage young people who are looking for work to go to the Job Bank and check out the Canada Summer Jobs opportunities available for them in Windsor-Essex.”

– Irek Kusmierczyk, Member of Parliament for Windsor-Tecumseh

Quick Facts

More than 150,000 Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) opportunities were made available to young Canadians as of April 26, 2021, across a wide variety of fields, including community and charity work, food industries, recreation and fitness, marketing and public relations, landscaping and farm labour, and many others.
CSJ is part of the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy, which helps youth, particularly those facing barriers, to gain the skills and experience they need to successfully transition to the labour market. The program strives to give young Canadians between the ages of 15 and 30 paid work opportunities so that they can grow professionally and improve their skills in the not-for-profit, small business and public sectors. It also supports the delivery of key community services to Canadians.
In the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, temporary flexibilities similar to those introduced for CSJ 2020 are available this year to ensure that even more young Canadians can apply. These include:
- an increased wage subsidy, so that private and public sector employers can receive up to 75% of the provincial or territorial minimum hourly wage for each employee (not-for-profit organizations will continue to receive 100%);
- an extension to the end date for employment to February 26, 2022; and
- allowing employers to hire staff on a part-time basis.
The CSJ 2021 call for employer applications closed on February 3, 2021. Over 50,000 applications were received during the call, representing more than 240,000 jobs requested. More than 42,700 projects have been funded, representing more than 152,000 job opportunities.
CSJ-funded jobs started as early as April 26, 2021. The last possible date for a work placement to start is January 15, 2022. The latest end date for all CSJ jobs, subject to agreement length, is February 26, 2022.

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