That's right. Good for you. Twenty-one schools in your electoral district participated.
When I was much younger, I thought that voter turnout was the best measure of the health of a democracy. I still think it's a clue, but I don't think it's the best measure. I think we have a different, generational interpretation of a sense of civic duty into electoral participation. That doesn't make me happy or comfortable with the decline in voter turnout. You're right that we've seen some hope in the recent federal election and in some of the other past recent federal elections, with youth voter turnout. Thank goodness Elections Canada actually monitors and studies that.
I think I'm not entirely uncomfortable with the change. I think we just need to acknowledge it. I still also don't think we should give up on a sense of civic duty. I also don't think we should believe that clicktivism, whatever that means, is a replacement for electoral participation. I think that it's a fundamental act of citizenship, and we should always treat it as such. We need continued actions, which would be great, with more investments in civic education.
Chris was a fantastic witness. I don't know Chris personally, other than from a couple of LinkedIn messages, but his concept of community and of bottom-up rather than top-down in how you look at some of these issues around civic resilience is something I firmly believe in. I think we need to keep working at it. It's not something to give up on. It's not going to be fixed overnight. We all have a role to play—even you in how you are on committee, how you are in the House and how you are at home—in people's trust in institutions.