Madam Speaker, I really appreciate that the hon. parliamentary secretary made those points. Clearly, I appreciate the changes to the Elections Act to allow 16-year-olds to pre-register. However, nothing is going to have an impact on youth voting like moving the voting age to 16.
I hear from 16-year-olds sometimes who say, “Maybe we don't know enough yet.” However, I would remind all colleagues here that we do not cut off the ability to vote based on intellectual capacities. If we happen to be in a long-term care home with dementia, we have the right to vote.
Canadian youth have a right to say what needs to be done so that the climate of the future is livable and that they have a livable world and a chance to die of old age, a right that we rarely embrace but one that our kids may be denied.