Electoral Reform committee  As I said earlier, although we represent 8,700 young people, as ridiculous as this may seem, we sometimes have trouble encouraging young people to participate more. That is consistent with your comment. We need to do a lot of things to solve the problems. In my experience, that's

Electoral Reform committee  Absolutely. It’s 2016. I am certain that it would be possible to do things properly and securely. As I mentioned, social networks are clearly reaching young people directly. It's a stereotype, true, but actually, those networks do a fairly good job of reaching the public at large

Electoral Reform committee  We've been asked that question before. As students, we are aware of the challenge. We don't want to take anything out, because we need everything. That's good. However, we are missing some things, whereas others are a little repetitive. We can do without the repetition. When you

Electoral Reform committee  It can be done that way, sort of indirectly, but that's absolutely not what young people are looking for. We want something practical. For instance, we have heard a lot of talk about bullying, but the situation still needs to be improved. That's not what we want. For future gene

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you very much.

Electoral Reform committee  It was one of the issues we discussed. We did not deal with it directly with a view to taking an official position. Our ideas on the matter remain quite general, at least for the moment. It is evolving all the time.

Electoral Reform committee  Absolutely. I will take off my president hat and answer as Sue Duguay. I find the idea quite interesting. However, I think that, if voting becomes mandatory, it will have to be accessible as well. It’s all very well to want everyone to vote, but it’s not easy to do so for the m

Electoral Reform committee  Let me tell you how we see that. As I explained in my presentation, we at the FJFNB operate according to a model designed by young people for young people. It does not matter whether someone is an adult, either younger or older, in order to stimulate their interest, they have to

Electoral Reform committee  Exactly. Like it or not, our population is aging. At least, that is the case in New Brunswick, if I may use it as an example again. In the school situation, for example, decisions are made that affect us directly in the classroom. However, they are decisions on which we do not n

Electoral Reform committee  I support what you are saying. If young people have asked us to press for the voting age to be lowered to 16, it is precisely because they are aware that decisions are being made about them without their being allowed to choose those who represent them directly. Starting at 18,

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening, everyone. I would like to thank you for inviting us and for making it possible for the voice of New Brunswick's francophone youth to be heard on an issue that is so important for our country's future democracy. My name is Sue Duguay and I am