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Picking prisons ahead of citizenship
Friday, April 6th, 2012
April 5, 2012
Despite the fact that Katimavik is a highly valuable program that more than pays for itself, the government has shut it down for what can only be ideological reasons. Katimavik is the country’s oldest and largest youth engagement program, open to all Canadians aged 17-21…. The federal budget states that Katimavik is being cut because it serves, “a very small number of participants at an excessive per-person cost.” (page 218). A 2006 report called Social and Economic Impact Study of the Katimavik Program, however, demonstrated that Katimavik actually generates excess value in the communities where it operates… Most of this value is invested in rural and remote communities.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, youth
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