I came from Montreal today. Our offices are located at the corner of Pine Avenue and Saint-Laurent Boulevard.
We're in your riding, actually, and we've worked really hard, or closely
with English and French groups. Most of the young people we work with in Quebec City are anglophones, but we also work closely with the Forum jeunesse de la région de Québec, which works with young francophones. Both groups work together.
I believe that accessibility is very important for young people.
I myself have had times where I missed the advance polling days and then election day. Because I work with Apathy is Boring, I was doing television interviews somewhere other than my riding, and then, oh, oh, what do you do? So I know that with the transient nature of youth, often being in one place on a specific day is challenging. Advance polls happen in advance, so you don't necessarily think about it when those days are happening. So I think accessibility is really critical, and I know personally I would have taken advantage of polling the day before the actual federal election several times if I'd had the opportunity.
Just to raise one other point about the voting list, the transient nature of youth is a problem, and one of the main reasons, I think, logistically that youth aren't voting is that they don't have proof of residence when they're at university. There's a major issue, I would argue, there around youth and their transient residences.