OTTAWA (CUP) - De- spite protests from student and community groups, ‘ederal funding for summer bmployment will probably iccrease next summer. - .

Youth’ Minister Jean “harest said as long as he unemployment rate for vouth keeps declining, the evel of federal funding will lo the same.

Since 1984, the unem- loyment rate for return- mg students has fallen two er cent. In the same pe- iod, summer job funding as decreased 12 per cent,

increasing to $205 million 1 1985) to $180 million in 986.

The budgetted figure of 180 million for 1987 rep- ‘sents a four per cent de- ease.

“Youth unemployment as gone down,” Charest id, “so it would be logi-

ot remain the same.”

Charest said the gov- nment’s overall policy is strengthen the economy

oyment conditions. “You n create all the pro- ammes in the world — the sic rule is the economy s to go well.”

The Canadian Federa- n of Students (CFS), on

_ Cigarette vending ma- ines now stand empty Concordia University in aterloo following a deci- n to ban the sale of to- ©cO on campus.

“Given that there were few outlets around (10 nding machines) and the erall desire to promote "an air, we eliminated © sale of cigarettes,” said e university vice-rector of vices Charles Giguere. -

Stan Kishi, manager Concordia’s food ser- © Marriot Foods said the

rom $201 million in 1984

al that the level of funding

d thereby improve em-.

FEDS SAY LESS MONEY FOR. STUDENT JOBS NEXT SUMMER

the other hand, has pro- posed that the government establish a base budget for the summer Challenge pro- grammes of $205 million, the 1985 level, and index the budget to the rate of in- flation.

- While the national rate of youth unemployment has gone down, the Atlantic provinces and B.C. remain stubborn pockets of jobless- ness. In July 6,000 or 25.7 per cent of young people in Newfoundland, for ex- ample, couldn't find a sum- mer job.

Tying the level of fund- ing to the national rate of unemployment and there- fore reducing the amount of money available, would force dorset iia, the government to “trade off” poor regions against one another, said CFS Ex- ecutive Officer Todd Smith.

Including private com- panies in the summer pro- grammes is another gov- ernment policy that dis- turbs CFS and community groups like the Save Our Summer coalition.

Before 1985, only non- profit organizations could take advantage of the sum- mer programmes, but in 1987 the private sector re- ceived about 30 per cent of the wage subsidies. The

- government says that stu-

Tobacco sales up in

company is not suffering a serious profit loss since it stopped supplying the uni- versity with cigarettes and added that the ban “is a step in the right direction for public health.” Concordia student Bar- bra Olha said the ban is a “good idea” as she sat smoking in the no-smoking area of the cafeteria. “If cigarettes are not being sold here, you can easily get them somewhere else.” Concordia has a Clean Air Coalition which is de-

dents make more money working in the private sec- tor doing a wider variety of jobs. ;

‘According to CFS; the gross wage of a student par- ticipating in Challenge °87 through a private sector job was. $2,800, compared to $1,700 in the non-private . sector.

Richmond Hotte, Ot- tawa representative of SOS, admits private sector jobs pay more but says non- profit organizations provide more valuable services, like daycare.

Hotte points out that non-profit organiza- tions, unlike private compa- nies, could not provide jobs without government fund- ing.

smoke

termined to see the uni- versity smoke-free, with the exception of designated smoking lounges. Concor- dia is not planning to go fully smoke-free this year, according to Giguere, be- cause “it would be rea- sonably expensive to create smoking areas with ventila- tion...”

Andreas Silbert. of the Clean Air Coalition dis- agreed with the vice-rector’s reason, noting

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According to a govern- ment evaluation of Chal- lenge ’86, 4,961 private sec- tor jobs would not have been created without gov- ernment funding; 26,084 non-profit jobs, on the other hand, relied entirely on Challenge ’86 money.

According to a March 1987 brief by SOS, “the new result of the govern- ment’s policy with regards to the private sector is mostly to reduce the wage costs of companies and cor- porations.” ~

Charest said however, that “jobs cost the govern- ment less to create in the private sector even though the private sector offers a better return to the stu- dent.”

Charest said he there- fore expects the same ratio, 30 per cent private to 70 per cent non-profit, of fund- ing next summer.

CFS said even private sector wages through the programme are too low to get a student through a year of university. =

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