Bright stylish. pamphlet aims for compact disk generation

Montreal (CUP) — It’s gossy and stylish. A bright collage of shiny compact disks la- belled ‘Jobs’, ‘Travel’ and ‘Fitness’ adorns its cover.

This is the _ fed-— eral Ministry of State for Youth’s ‘Hot 100’ booklet on federal pro- grams and services for youth.

Over 50,000 of the booklets have been dis- tributed to student em- ployment ‘centers and high schools across the country to “make. ac- cessible all the federal programs available to

young people,” accord- ing to Jean Charest, the Ju- nior Cabinet Minister responsible for youth. “It’s “very flashy. It’s made to be

‘flashy and very attrac-

tive — especially to high school students,” . said Charest.

Even the subtitle of the boolet is hip: “A quick guide to what the Feds are doing for youth”.

‘But é not everyone has been impressed by the Tory effort to attract youth with a high-powered,

high gloss sales pitch. “Since they’ve been in power, brought in

complete with appeal-.—

ing promises, the Con- servatives have done

absolutely nothing for

youth — besides making major cutbacks,” said l’Association Nationale -des_ Etudiant-e-s du Quebec official Fran- cois Giguere. “They’ve modified and cut their Challenge summer pro- grams to the point where if they were to have kept up with in- dexation, theis sum-

mer’s program would be $222 million rather

The National Bank of Canada is launching its second “Chairman of

the Board for a day” contest.’ The

contest is open to all Canadian

residents between the ages of 15

and 19. The grand prize winner will

have the privilege of becoming Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of * Canada for a day. ‘

Again this year, the contest will be held in three stages and will consist of written and oral competitions. Winners will be chosen by a jury. ‘

Ont el be kd

Ih the first stage of the contest, participants send a typed essay of a maximum of three (3). pages to their nearest National Bank of Canada branch, explaining: “How do you envision an ideal society and what can today’s youth do to help achieve it?” The essays judged the most interesting will be retained

and their authors will be invited to meet with the jury for the second stage of

the contest: the regional semi-finals of the oral competitions. The regional semi-final winners will then be invited to the Bank’s Head Office on June 24

(all expenses paid) to meet with the jury for the final of the oral competitions.

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

FOR A DAY!

OF sty OF PRIZES

In addition to becoming Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Canada’ for a day, the grand prize winner of the final in Montreal will receive shares of the National Bank of Canada (worth $2,000). Prizes of $1,250 and $650 will

NAME: ADDRESS: PosTAL CODE:

AGE (BIRTH CERTIFICATE REQUIRED):

ADDRESS OF BRANCH TO WHICH YOU ARE SENDING YOUR ESSAY:

TELEPHONE:

LANGUAGE OF ENTRY:

also be awarded to the contestants ranking second and third in the final: Winners in the regional semi-finals of the oral competitions will receive $150.

A copy of the contest regulations may be obtained at any National Bank of Canada branch.

Contest DATES

The contest opens February 23, 1987 and essays must be received by the Bank before midnight, April 12, 1987. An entry form and birth certificate must be enclosed with the essay for the first (written) stage of the contest.

BS NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA |

Jean Cherest, Minister

than $180 million.” _Chaest: said biggest problem facing students is the tan- sition from ‘school to work, which explains why’ the, Conservative

government has shifted.

the emphasis of the $1.7 billion Job. Stat- egy Program to train- ing, and is directing the

Hot 100 at secondary-

level students.

“The possibility of jobs are there ... If you’ve. been to com-

munity college or uni-

versity, youre going to work, you’re going to

' get.a good salary, that’s what the probabilities — “Say.” ee

“New problems have appeared. One of

them is unemployment.

no one is going to deny thay. But the more urgently pressing and dramatic problems are the young people who don’t finish high school. They are the ones left

behind,” Charest said.

But. Giguere argues

that youth unemploy- ment is not a new prob- lem, but rather an age old one that can only

be solved with careful

study and a new policy.

the-

Although =| the federal government

announced last spring that it was formulat-

“ing a national. policy

on youth, Charest said he knew of no com-

mitment by the govern-

ment to development such a policy.

“One of the con- clusions we’ve coine to is that it’s not a new program that’s going to change the funda- mental problems have to deal with today.” Charest said.

“The labour market is going to have less and less places fo unskilled labourers and that. is going to be a_prob- lem. That’s why it’s been the thrust of fed- eral policy to put forth employment programs that not only keep peo- ple busy, like the Ka-

_timaviks of this world.

but offers them some employment skills.”

Charest, who is also responsible for admin- istering the $180 mil- lion Challenge 87 suin- mer wage subsidy pro- gram, said “the govern: ment is sold on the pri- vate sector, but that’s where the jobs are.” |

Thouh funding for Challenge 87 is down $35 million from 1985.

Charest said the pro- gram will still be “re- gionally sensitive” ac- cording to the unem- ployment . Yates of returning students in each regions»