I agree. I think having the youth contribute to the solution is very central to everything we are looking at. Dan Olweus, the Scandinavian guru of studies on bullying, found very early on that if you give kids the chance to contribute to rule-making, it goes down by 50%, and that was a long time ago. So, yes, kids should participate.
Under the CRC, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Canada has not been doing a great enough job under participation rights, under article 12. We're repeatedly asked to engage kids more in contributing to these kinds of things, so I agree.