OTTAWA — Youth aren’t disengaged from politics; they just don’t happen to be engaged in the election process.
“It’s not that they don’t think elections matter, they don’t realize how much elections matter,” says Peter Loewen, a political scientist from the University of Toronto.
But canada.com and iPolitics.ca plan to do something about that. This week, we’ll host an election debate focused on youth issues at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. The event, which brings together young debaters with considerable experience inside their political parties, will also be livestreamed to all Postmedia newspapers.
–snip– The debaters at Wednesday night’s free event are deeply engaged with politics. They include:
– Alykhan Velshi, who is working a second election in the Conservative Party campaign war room;
– Samuel Lavoie, president of the Young Liberals of Canada (YLC), the youth wing of the Liberal Party of Canada;
– Isaac Cockburn, who has worked at NDP headquarters in Ottawa and as an assistant to MP Nathan Cullen;
– and Jonathan Halasz, co-president of the Carleton University Green Party.
http://www.canada.com/Debate+your+future+April/4669695/story.html
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Youth+have+their+election+campaign
Link to debate: http://ipolitics.ca/2011/04/25/ydelxn41-debate-your-future-april-27/
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